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Posts by Martin Rock

@pshares.bsky.social was the first #litmag I read as an undergrad and it continues to be one of the best in the country.

It was a privilege to spend time in the archives, and I'm so proud of this piece.

Thanks to @jennymolberg.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @unsung-masters.bsky.social

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The new Missouri Review cover is stunning. It’s my first time seeing my name on the cover of a magazine and I’m so excited it’s this one.

Gratitude to the editors for seeing value in my work.

The poems are from my new book, Infinite Scroll, forthcoming from @tupelopress.bsky.social in Aug, 2027.

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So excited to share our new cover for Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets!

Forthcoming from @weslpress.bsky.social . Edited by Adrienne Perry, @kevinprufer.bsky.social , and Martin Rock.

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Resist and Unsubscribe

Here’s another way you can help #abolishICE and tell the administration we won’t stand for fascism.

resistandunsubscribe.com

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Grateful to the editors at The Missouri Review for selecting some poems from Infinite Scroll as runners-up for the 2025 Editors' Prize in Poetry!

Infinite Scroll is forthcoming from @tupelopress.bsky.social in 2027. More to come!
#Poetry #PoetrySky #LitSky #PoetsOfBluesky

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Just realized that when you rearrange the letters in Kristi Noem it spells Heinrich Himmler.

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A poem for our times; a spell to trap and temper the Chaos Cheeto.

From The Making of a Sonnet, edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland

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Troubleshooting the US government: "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"

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‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

And now we're going to "rescue coal"?! Maybe 1984 isn't the right analogy. This is some planet-destroying Death-Star-superlaser Darth-Vader shit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...

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Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

We’ve completely moved into a 1984 timeline, where the DOE is concerned.

The only rule about climate change is you can’t talk about climate change.

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The beginning? What year is it?

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We'd love to see your proposals for excellent, little-known, and unjustly neglected authors. Reach out for more info!

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Finally, celebrate with me by buying a book from Tupelo's remarkable and important catalogue -- @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, @jennymolberg.bsky.social, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social -- and so many more!

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The life of a book depends on word of mouth, and this one especially lives in conversation with community. If the themes resonate with you, I’d be honored if you share and promote this announcement. Poetry carries voices despite every attempt to extinguish them. We will not be silenced.

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Infinite Scroll / Infinite Eye wrestles with technological & corporate overreach, ecological collapse, and the erasure of identity—it coalesces around a personal journey with illness I’ll share more about in the months to come.

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Forché’s work reminds us that poetry is a technology of empathy and resilience: it resists erasure, protects cultural memory, and exposes the forces that demand our silence. To have this book chosen by her feels like an initiation into this tradition of witness.

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I got this news the same day the NEA announced the end of its artist grant programs. Our cultural institutions and communities of resistance are being dismantled in real time. Even as I celebrate, I'm mindful of this attempt to eliminate our capacity to understand and even to love one another.

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TUPELO PRESS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THE 2025 BERKSHIRE PRIZE - Tupelo Press Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Carolyn Forché, has selected INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California as the winner of the 2025 Berks...

I’m deeply honored to share that my manuscript Infinite Scroll / Infinite Eye has been awarded the Berkshire Prize from Tupelo @tupelopress.bsky.social, selected by Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social.

So grateful to Kristina Marie Darling, Jeffrey Levine, and everyone at Tupelo!

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TUPELO PRESS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THE 2025 BERKSHIRE PRIZE - Tupelo Press Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Carolyn Forché, has selected INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California as the winner of the 2025 Berks...

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California is the winner of the 2025 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry.

Congratulations @infinite-scroll.bsky.social

www.tupelopress.org/tupelo-press...

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Poem: Entanglement (Published 2020)

“You have to like what time does.”

This poem by Carmen Giménez Smith.

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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

“In April, Elon Musk’s X supercomputing center near Memphis was found, via satellite imagery, to be using dozens of methane gas generators that the Southern Environmental Law Center alleges are not approved by energy regulators to supplement grid power and are violating the Clean Air Act."

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Green and Brown on Blue, 2025

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No one will believe this, but:

When I was a kid, the top income tax bracket was MORE THAN 90%.

Corporate tax rate was 450% of what it is now.

That was under Dwight Eisenhower.

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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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The Influence of Foreign Aid America is losing a diplomatic tool the government has relied on for decades.

“Elon Musk has [saved] the United States less than 1 percent of its budget. If those savings are put toward renewing or expanding Trump’s tax cut, which seems likely, those billions will flow directly from the mouths of the world’s poorest into the pockets of the world’s richest.”

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Symptoms of The Mumps include:

- Pain in the neck (and critical thinking glands)

- Whole body chills, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, malaise

- Difficulty swallowing (bullshit)

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Musk + Trump = The Mumps

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'Schalter' #FotoVorschlag

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