photo credit: adam o. davis
One of those books people call "dizzying" and actually mean it.
—brazos bookstore
Rock toggles between manifesto and prayer, satire and elegy, asking what stays human when attention is currency.
—carolyn forché, author of in the lateness of the world
Martin Rock's impressive debut collection announces itself like a command to "Save."
—adrian matejka, editor of poetry magazine
Rock's is a wonderful new voice to encounter, a poet who takes from several different canons within our poetic tradition and makes something utterly his own from them.
—erin belieu, author of come hither, honeycomb
Press Kit
Short Bio
Martin Rock is the author of Infinite Scroll (Tupelo Press, 2027), selected by Carolyn Forché for the Tupelo Berkshire Prize, and Residuum, editor’s choice for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Prize and a Foreword INDIE Book Award finalist. With Adrienne Perry and Kevin Prufer, he co-edited Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets (Wesleyan University Press, 2026). His chapbooks include Dear Mark (Brooklyn Arts Press) and Fish, You Bird (Pilot Books, co-written with Philip D. Ischy). He has been awarded the Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry, named runner-up for The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and his editorial work for Gulf Coast was recognized for excellence by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Martin teaches writing and climate justice at the University of California San Diego, and, with poets Kevin Prufer and Wayne Miller, co-directs The Unsung Masters Series.
