Evie Shockley, author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
new book
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.
Carolyn Forché, author of In the Lateness of the World, and editor of Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness
coming soon
Infinite Scroll
Winner of the 2025 Tupelo Berkshire Prize in Poetry
Selected by Carolyn Forché for the Tupelo Berkshire Prize, Infinite Scroll explores the intersections of ecological devastation, social fracture, illness, fatherhood, and capitalism amid the encroaching pressures of techno-fascism. Grappling with a destabilizing diagnosis, climate anxiety, and the threat of digital attention capture, Martin Rock’s second collection contains inventive and intimate lyric poems that borrow language from medicine, philosophy, and economics and land with documentary precision and care. 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 closer relationship with one another, with our own bodies and minds, and with the earth. “Put down the phone,” Rock urges us. “Pick up the book. A different life exists.”
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Author Bio
Martin Rock teaches writing and climate justice at University of California, San Diego and co-directs The Unsung Masters Series.