Charles Martin 4467908 198110001 2008-03-14T02:38:03Z Stumps 416054 link to movement not periodical {{otherpersons|Charles Martin}} '''Charles Martin''', is a [[poet]], [[critic]] and [[translator]], was born in [[New York City]] in [[1942]] and grew up in [[the Bronx]]. He graduated from [[Fordham University]] and received his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York]]. He now teaches at [[the City University of New York]] and [[Syracuse University]]. Martin's specialty is [[Latin poetry]]. He is the author of two translations: ''The Poems of [[Catullus]]'' ([[Johns Hopkins University Press]] 1990) and ''[[Ovid]]'s Metamorphoses'' (W.W. Norton 2004). Martin has also published a scholarly book on Catullus called ''Catullus: A Critical Study'' ([[Yale University Press]] 1992). Martin's Ovid translation won the 2004 Harold Landon Translation Award from the [[Academy of American Poets]]. Martin is also a [[New Formalism|New Formalist]], and was an original faculty member of the [[West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry]]. His books of original poetry include: ''Steal the Bacon'' (Johns Hopkins University Press 1987); ''What the Darkness Proposes'' (Johns Hopkins University Press 1996) and ''Starting from Sleep: New & Selected Poems'' (Overlook Press/Sewanee Writers Series 2002). He received the Poetry Foundation's [http://www.poetrymagazine.org/about/prizes.html#hokin Beth Hokin Prize] in 1970. His poem, "Against a Certain Kind of Ardency," was in the 2001 [[Pushcart Prize]] collection, and in 2005 he won the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]' [http://www.artsandletters.org/index.php?page=press_releases&release=6 Award for Literature]. ==External links== *Charles Martin's [http://www.charlesmartinpoet.com website]. *Martin's [http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/BasicSkills/Faculty/cmartin.asp faculty webpage], Queensborough Community College. Retrieved December 28, 2006. *Sturgeon, Shawn (2003). [http://www.sewaneewriters.org/writers/martin "Starting Point"] (description of ''Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems''), website of Sewanee Writers Conference. Retrieved December 28, 2006. *[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/324 Biography and links to poems], website of the Academy of American Poets. Retrieved December 28, 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Charles}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Latin-English translators]] [[Category:American poets]]