Anneliese Finke

As a poet, my style is a sort of literal surrealism or magical realism, and yet I believe very strongly in clarity. If I could ask one thing of a reader or listener, it would be to really try to picture what I’m describing in my poetry. Like Chagall’s figures who float through the air, I am trying to capture a world that is both clear and real but also strange and magical – ordinary and extraordinary all at once – as though perhaps those two things are not as different as we assume.