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"Other Legacies shakes up a century of American Poetics."
Evie Shockley, author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Inovation in African American Poetry
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Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets

Fantastic poets you’ve never heard of introduced by authors you know and love.

Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets brings together thirty-five extraordinary but under-recognized poets whose work has shaped and enriched the literary landscape of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, writers whose contributions were overlooked because of race, gender, sexuality, disability, region, language, resistance to prevailing literary norms, or plain bad luck. Selected and introduced by a vibrant community of contemporary poets and critics, these writers appear chronologically, allowing readers to trace an alternate, deeply pluralistic history of American poetry. With links to an interactive digital timeline, this anthology is an invaluable resource for classrooms, scholars, and readers seeking a more inclusive sense of American poetic lineage.

  • "Other Legacies is revelatory, presenting a few poets wholly new to me and several poems that have become instant favorites. As lovely and various as its poetry are its introductory essays. It shakes up a century of American poetics.”

    Evie Shockley, author of: Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry

  • “Every anthology proposes an argument, and the one made by Other Legacies is that American poetry is richer and deeper than the usual accounts of it. In one singular poet after another, we encounter voices of piercing solitude and social passion: as Tom Postell beautifully intones, “O give me a solid piece of sunlight and a yardstick / Of my own and the right to holler.” Complicating our story now, in our perilous times, Other Legacies is a work of marvelous, necessary reclamation.”

    Rick Barot, author of Moving the Bones

"Fiercely intimate and formally inventive, Infinite Scroll is a field guide to being alive in our moment and surviving."
Carolyn Forché, author of In the Lateness of the World, and editor of Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness
Forthcoming from Tupelo, 2027
The Missouri Review 2025 Editor's Prize, Runner-Up
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Infinite Scroll

Winner of the 2025 Tupelo Berkshire Prize in Poetry

Selected by Carolyn Forché for the Berkshire Prize, Infinite Scroll explores the intersections of ecological devastation, social fracture, and illness in an age of algorithmic capture and corporate overreach. Grappling with a cancer diagnosis, climate anxiety, and the grip of digital addiction, Martin Rock draws on the languages of medicine, philosophy, and economics to collide surrealist dream logic with documentary clarity. This is a collection that contemplates grief and collapse without surrendering to it, illuminating how love and critical awareness—like the technology of poetry itself—can bring us into relationship with one another, with our own bodies and desires, and with the earth and its inhabitants, unmediated by digital interruption.

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Martin Rock teaches writing and climate justice at University of California, San Diego and Co-Directs The Unsung Masters Series.