Charles Martin, Friday, April 8th, 7:00 p.m. DWC

WHEN: Friday, April 8th, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Downtown Writer’s Center
Downtown YMCA, 340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Charles Martin’s verse translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid was published in November of 2003 by W.W. Norton and Co and was selected as co-winner of the Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets for 2004. His most recent book of poems, Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems, published in July 2002 by the Sewanee Writers’ Series/The Overlook Press, was chosen as a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. He is a professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY), and teaches poetry at Syracuse University. In February, he was named Poet in Residence at Cathedral St. John the Divine in New York City. 

The reading is free and open to the public. For more information:

Philip Memmer
Director, the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse
340 Montgomery St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
www.ymcaarts.org
(315) 474-6851 x314
(315) 474-6857 (fax)