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

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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

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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

References

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