Charles Martin (poet)
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Charles Martin (born 1942, New York City) is a poet, critic and translator. He 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.[1] He now teaches at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, Syracuse University, and the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.[2] Martin's specialty is Latin poetry. Martin is also a New Formalist, and was an original faculty member of the West Chester University Poetry Conference.[3]
Honors and awards
[edit]He received the Poetry Foundation's 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' Award for Literature Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Martin's Ovid literary translation won the 2004 Harold Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Published works
[edit]Full-length poetry collections
- Passages from Friday: Poems. Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha. 1983. ISBN 978-0-317-40788-4.
- Steal the Bacon. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-8018-3493-6.
- What the Darkness Proposes. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8018-5487-3.
- Starting from Sleep: New & Selected Poems. Harry N. Abrams. 2002. ISBN 978-1-58567-272-1.
Critical works
Translations
- Catullus (1990). The Poems of Catullus. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3926-9.
- Ovid (2005). Ovid's Metamorphoses. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07243-3.
- Vyasa (2013). The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-34513-1.
References
[edit]- ^ "About Charles Martin | Academy of American Poets".
- ^ http://www.thehypertexts.com/Charles%20Martin%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
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External links
[edit]- Charles Martin's website
- Queensborough Community College > Martin's Faculty Page Retrieved December 28, 2006.
- Sturgeon, Shawn (2003). "Starting Point" (description of Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems), website of Sewanee Writers Conference. Retrieved December 28, 2006.
- Biography and links to poems, website of the Academy of American Poets. Retrieved December 28, 2006.
- Charles Martin's photographic work on En Foco, was featured in Nueva Luz photographic journal, volume 9#1.
