@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

Ploughshares Literary Journal@pshares.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ploughshares is excited to partner with The Unsung Masters Series! In this PS essay, Martin Rock (@infinite-scroll.bsky.social), poet, translator, and Co-Director of the series, considers the archive as a living site of resistance.

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.

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.

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

Resist and Unsubscribe

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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

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

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

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

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.

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.

politico.com

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

The Unsung Masters Series@unsung-masters.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We're seeking proposals for future Unsung Masters volumes! Send your proposal to unsung.masters.series[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15. For more info, visit unsungmasters.org or reach out to series editors @kevinprufer.bsky.social, @infinite-scroll.bsky.social, or @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social.

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!

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...

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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...

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...

tupelopress.org

“You have to like what time does.” This poem by Carmen Giménez Smith.

Poem: Entanglement (Published 2020)

nytimes.com

"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."

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.

motherjones.com

“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."

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.

technologyreview.com

Green and Brown on Blue, 2025

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.

Politics In The Wild@politicsinthewild.bsky.social · last yr.

Effective Corporate Tax Rates 1950: 50% 2025: 13% Top Marginal Tax Rates 1950: 91% 2025: 37% If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

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

“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.”

The Influence of Foreign Aid

America is losing a diplomatic tool the government has relied on for decades.

nytimes.com

Musk + Trump = The Mumps

'Schalter' #FotoVorschlag

FotoVorschlag@fotovorschlag.de · last yr.

'Schalter' #FotoVorschlag

I still don't know if Musk doesn't understand that USAID is a huge government handout to U.S. companies, especially farmers, or if he just doesn't care.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y ago

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

Ok can someone please ask him who he thinks Congress is because I’m beginning to get the feeling he doesn’t know it’s him

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 2y ago

Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. #BlackHistoryMonth

Aspiring dictator move right here. Let’s keep him limited to the first syllable.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2y ago

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

With respect, suspending electric building codes for homes that burned down in LA so people can rebuild with highly flammable fossil gas is a terrible policy. This doesn't protect neighbors next time. And it worsens the climate crisis. Do better, Mayor Bass. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Column: The Los Angeles fires are no excuse to slow down on clean energy

State and local officials seem to be rushing to rethink climate policies. It's a terrible idea.

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what's wrong babe, you've hardly touched today's heap of apocalyptic news headlines

These tariffs hit the auto industry hard — but guess what company doesn’t manufacture in Mexico? Tesla. These tariffs give Musk further advantage over Tesla’s competitors. How else will they fuck over the American people to benefit the billionaires?