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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Brooklyn, NY

New York US

Email:

martin.shijin.rock@gmail.com

Bio:

Martin Rock is a poet, editor, and translator living in Houston. He edits and designs Loaded Bicycle, an online magazine of poetry, translation, and art, and is a contributing editor of Epiphany, a Literary Journal. He has taught writing and poetry at New York University, Berkeley College (in Manhattan) and the Jackson Hole Writers Conference, and has received fellowships from the Port Townsend Writers Conference, NYU, and Mt. Tremper Arts. He holds an MFA from New York University and is a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Japanese

Website:

https://martinrockpoetry.com [2]

Prizes won:

Semi-Finalist for “Discovery”/ Boston Review Prize, 2013

Pushcart Prize nomination from Black Warrior Review, 2012

Finalist, Arctic Technology, DIAGRAM New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, 2012

Finalist, How to Know the Oceans, Four Way Books Intro Prize, 2012

Inclusion in Best New Poets 2012

Exceptional Manuscript, New Country, Omnidawn First Book Prize, 2011

Finalist, New Country, Sarabande Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, 2011

Semi-Finalist, Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Contest for Vertibratariat, 2010

Finalist, Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Contest for Notes After a Harlequin Apocalypse, 2010

Finalist, Cody Harris Allen Award for poetry, 2004

Honorable Mention, Academy of American Poets’ John McKay Shaw Award, 2004

What I'm reading now:

Destroyer and Preserver by Matthew Rohrer

The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby

Conversities by Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy

Paterson by William Carlos Williams

Prefers to work with:

Any