An Afternoon with Martin Rock

“Beyond the Human: Attention and the Poetics of Deep Time”

Join poet Martin Rock for a reading and talk exploring attention, poetry, and our relationship to the vast scales of deep time.

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. His poetry, essays, and translations from Japanese have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, Best American Experimental Writing, Best New Poets, Ploughshares P.S., Asymptote, Poetry International, and elsewhere. Co-editor of Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets (Wesleyan University Press) and Catherine Breese Davis: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades Press), he has been awarded the Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry, named runner-up for The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and longlisted for several prizes including the Boston Review “Discovery Prize” and the National Poetry Series. Martin holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. He 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.