Charles Martin (born 1942,

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) is a

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, critic and

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. He grew up in

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. He graduated from Fordham University and received his

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from the

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. He now teaches at the City University of New York, Syracuse University, and th
Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine
Martin's specialty is

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. Martin is also a

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, and was an original faculty member of the

West Chester University Poetry Conference The West Chester University Poetry Conference is an international poetry conference that has been held annually since 1995 at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, United States. It hosts various panel discussions and poetry craft workshops, wh ...

Honors and awards

He received the Poetry Foundation'
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

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Award for Literature
Martin's

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

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won the 2004 Harold Landon Translation Award from the

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Published works

Full-length poetry collections * * * * Critical works * Translations * * *

References

External links

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 o
En Foco
was featured in Nueva Luz photographic journal, volume 9#1. {{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Charles 1942 births American poets of Irish descent Living people Latin–English translators American male poets Formalist poets Writers from the Bronx Fordham University alumni University at Buffalo alumni City University of New York faculty Syracuse University faculty University of Southern Maine faculty es:Charles Martin