"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"

----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"

Issue 1 - 2008

Eric Martin  

Eric Martin's poems and translations have appeared in over fifty
print and online journals throughout the United States
and Great Britain, including Pivot, Blue Unicorn, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, The Eclectic Muse, Edge
City Review, The Barefoot Muse, Contemporary Rhyme,
The Road Not Taken, The Neovictorian, Pegasus, Lilliput Review, Light Quarterly and The Iconoclast.  He  began writing poetry in 1994, but has only recently returned to it after a hiatus of seven years.  "I am a formalist poet," he writes, "with a particular interest in American and European
Romantic poetry, especially that of Lord Byron and Edgar Allan Poe."  In 2005, he received an M.A. degree in ancient and medieval history from the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville (USA), with a specialization in
late Greco-Roman patristic and theater history.  He is
currently completing a verse translation of the French libretto to Hector Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust
(1846).  Presently, he reside in northern Maine, with his wife and family, where he enjoys fishing and
listening to classical music.