Charles Martin, a noted poet, critic and translator, was born in New York City in 1942 and grew up in the Bronx. He graduated from Fordham University and received his Ph.D from SUNY-Buffalo. He now teaches at the City University of New York and Syracuse University. Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Main article: New York City The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. ... Fordham University is a prestigious co-educational private university in New York City. ... University at Buffalo The University at Buffalo, formerly known as the State University of New York at Buffalo, is located in Buffalo, New York, USA, and is one of the four university centers operated by the State University of New York. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym usually pronounced kyoo-nee or coo-nee), located in New York City, is the largest urban university in the United States, with more than 208,000 enrolled in degree programs and another 208,000 enrolled in adult and continuing education courses at... Syracuse University (SU) is a private American research university. ...

Martin's specialty is Latin poetry. He is the author of two widely acclaimed translations: The Poems of Catullus (Johns Hopkins University Press 1990) and Ovid's Metamorphoses (W.W. Norton 2004). Martin has also published a scholarly book on Catullus called Catullus: A Critical Study (Yale University Press 1992). Martin's Ovid translation won the 2004 Harold Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Latin poetry was a major part of Latin literature during the height of the Latin language. ... Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ...

Martin is also a prominent New Formalist, and was an original faculty member of the West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry. His books of original poetry include: Steal the Bacon (Johns Hopkins University Press 1987); What the Darkness Proposes (Johns Hopkins University Press 1996) and Starting from Sleep: New & Selected Poems (Overlook Press/Sewanee Writers Series 2002). He won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' 2005 Award for Literature, and he has also won Poetry's Bess Hokin Award and a Pushcart Prize. New Formalism is a late-twentieth and early twenty-first century movement in Anglo-American poetry that has brought about a major revival in metrical and rhymed verse. ... American Academy of Arts and Letters is an organization whose goal is to foster, assist, and sustain an interest in American literature, music, and art. ... The Pushcart Prize - Best of the small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. ...

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