Charles Martin (poet)

For other people named Charles Martin, see Charles Martin (disambiguation).

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

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

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.
• Signs & Wonders. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011. ISBN   978-0-8018-9974-4.
• Future Perfect. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2018. ISBN   978-1-4214-2535-1.
• The Khayyam Suite. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2025. ISBN   978-1-4214-5071-1.

Critical works

• Catullus: A Critical Edition. University of North Carolina Press. 1978. ISBN   978-0-807-81323-2.

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

1. "About Charles Martin | Academy of American Poets".
2. "Charles Martin: Poet, Poetry, Picture, Bio".
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2009-06-22.

External links

• Charles Martin's website
• Queensborough Community College > Martin's Faculty Page Archived 2006-09-22 at the Wayback Machine 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.