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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Russel Edson, “Under Great White Flooded Clouds” From The Tormented Mirror, 2001

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“If we approach the drinking of water that comes from the tap from a global perspective we would have to talk about it differently.” bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994. p.50.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trenton Doyle Hancock, A Sweet Hell, 2010 Surrealism: Then and Now at the Bechtler in Charlotte, NC

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thomas Lerooy. Eye of the Storm, 2023. Surrealism: Then and Now at the Bechtler in Charlotte, NC.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Dissonance” by Amy Lowell from Modernist Women Poets: an Anthology.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“reading” by Quan Barry, from Asylum, 2000

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

“Love always uses us as if we were infinite, it seems,/ although it must know, by now, that we’re not.” — GC Waldron, from THE OPENING RITUAL, 2024

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

“Then we were”/ “truly quiet” “& being that,” “were nothing” — Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette, 1996

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Caught these jokers conspiring this morning after Saturday morning LEGO time with the kids. Everyone’s all worried about the dangers of AI sentience and the robot apocalypse but the LEGOs have had a lot more time to plan. For the record, I welcome our LEGO overlords when the reckoning arrives.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

No idea what you’re talking about — this all feels like grounded journalism and not techno-optimist bullshit designed to help us sink deeper into our armchairs and have another sportsball beer.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It's this obviously. Red and white stripes hide the paint stains and mask his struggle to represent the world as it truly is.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

“Then, again, you may find yourself/ giving a speech that enthralls/ your audience but, because you have/ no idea what the subject is, keeps you/ clinging to the incomprehensible/ like a fly to glass” Paul Violi, from The Curious Builder, 1993

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Oh look I found $15.4 billion to start with the government spending budget cuts.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"A ridge hangs on the thighs of a flock of birds." -- "Sweep Up a Flock," Kim Kyung-Ju, translated by Jake Levine. First published in Granta, 2017 granta.com/three-poems-...

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees.” “Susie Asado,” Gertrude Stein, 1926

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“Rousseau knew that death is not the simple outside of life. Death by writing also inaugurates life. ‘I can certainly say that I never began to live, until I looked upon myself as a dead man.’” —Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, translated by Gayatri Charavorty Spivak, 1974 (p.143)

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.” The Candle Indoors, Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1918

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

25 miles in, a break before the hill.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Here’s a new thing for me: posting a poem that hasn’t been published anywhere, effectively rendering it unpublishable. So here’s one just for you, poetry fiends.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Friendly reminder for when the weird shit happens

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"The threat in today’s second Gilded Age comes from the lack of public regulation of a small number of commercial and social infrastructure platforms and grids that vast numbers of other businesses and consumers must use, with no realistic alternatives." www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Pied Beauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1918

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Object Exercise, Tracy Fuad, 2021

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The World is Too Much With Us, William Wordsworth, 1807

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Robert Henri, The Art Spirit, 1923 Also The Sisterhood. It helps if you replace “Brotherhood” with “Community.”

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

William Matthews, Ruining the New Road, 1967

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A little bummed to be leaving this beautiful city. See you again soon, Chicago.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

“The future of time is determined by the power of volition.” Reinforcements, Marianne Moore, 1918 poets.org/poem/reinfor...

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Beloved civil servants: Swallow the codes. Embrace asymmetry. Obstruct! Occlude! Obturate! Illegibility as Democracy. _ "They haven’t learned that what they should fear is not written language but, instead, the very impulse to write." www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01...

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I Want the Wide American Earth, Carlos Bulosan, 1950 poets.org/poem/i-want-...

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

From the foreword of Writing Degree Zero, Roland Barthes.

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