Martin Ott has published eight books of poetry and fiction, most recently Lessons In Camouflage, C&R Press, 2018. His first two poetry collections won the De Novo and Sandeen Prizes. His work has appeared in more than two hundred magazines and fifteen anthologies. Content development is Martin's passion — he is a marketing communications professional for a tech company and develops for TV and film in between other writing projects.

Other poems by Martin Ott in Verse Daily:
February 1, 2013:   "Syzygy" "The dead have lost their sense of humor...."

Books by Martin Ott:

Other poems on the web by Martin Ott:
Two poems
Three poems
"Clusters"
Four poems
"Alligators Are Out There Eating Sharks, No Big Deal"
"The Poem That Got Away"
"Mercy"
Three poems

Martin Ott's Website.

Martin Ott on Twitter.

About Lessons In Camouflage:

"Martin Ott's Lessons In Camouflage is as hard to pin down as its title suggests. It weaves in and out of formal structures and straight talk, with poems both philosophical and poems made out of tabloid headlines. Head on, these poems confront conflict at all levels – family, war, and the morning commute. And because he lives in LA you will learn more than you thought possible about dangerous drivers. Lessons In Camouflage is exactly what he speculates our first books were–'dissertations on how much trouble we were in'. And like most trouble, this is an awful lot of fun."
—Matthew Rohrer

"Martin Ott's Lessons in Camouflage examines the place where masculinity and its expectations intersect. There is a lushness and musicality to Ott's poems, which belies the idea that poems about manhood should be spartan. Moreover, Ott has a gift for pulling stories from everyday objects and for making newer, more useful objects out of them, which are these well-crafted poems."
—Sonia Greenfield

"In Lessons in Camouflage, Marin Ott invites readers to discover much strange beauty in mundane domesticities — graffiti in an apartment complex elevator, tedious morning commutes, people in line at Starbucks, these are among his subjects. But rather than reveling in how a clever writer can defamiliarize what we think we know, Ott's great gift in this collection is to make the familiar seen in all its depth and complexity. This book takes readers fully and vividly into the inner life of a young military recruit, and then later, a father, and beyond that, a grieving son. We may think we know these stories, but what we think we know is mere camouflage – this book helps us see through the obfuscating veils into the clarity of a beating human heart."
—Kathryn Nuernberger