Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (ca. 40104 CE), made his way to Rome from Iberia (now Spain) and won renown across the Empire for his humorous epigrams. Susan McLean is a professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. She won the 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize for a collection of her own poems, The Whetstone Misses the Knife , and in 2009 her collection The Best Disguise won the Richard Wilbur Award. "

Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (ca. 40104 CE), made his way to Rome from Iberia (now Spain) and won renown across the Empire for his humorous epigrams. Susan McLean is a professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. She won the 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize for a collection of her own poems, The Whetstone Misses the Knife , and in 2009 her collection The Best Disguise won the Richard Wilbur Award. " See less