Charles Martin
Charles Martin is the author of four books of poems, including Steal The Bacon and What The Darkness Proposes, both published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of the poems of Catullus has also been published by Johns Hopkins, and his critical introduction to the Latin poet’s work appears as one of the volumes in the Yale University Press’s Hermes Series. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Boulevard, The Threepenny Review, and in many other magazines and anthologies. He is the recipient of a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, a 2001 Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY) and has recently taught workshops at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the West Chester Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry, and the Unterberg Center of the 92nd Street YMHA. Starting From Sleep: New and Selected Poems will appear in July 2002, from Sewanee Writers’ Series/ The Overlook Press, and on a new verse translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid, will be published next year by W.W. Norton and Co.