In this Green Apple Books event, Nick Martino reads from his debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (Alice James Books, 2026), and discusses how he used different types of archival documents to explore how his father’s incarceration shaped his life in a conversation with Brian Tierney. Scrap Book is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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