Art Beck’s Luxorius Opera Omnia (versions of the 6th century c.e. Latin epigrammist, published by Otis College) won the 2013 Northern California Book Award for poetry in translation. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in a number of lit-journals, anthologies and small press volumes. From 2009 through 2012, he was a twice-yearly contributor to the Los Angeles poetry magazine Rattle ’s e-issues with a series of essays on translating poetry under the byline ‘The Impertinent Duet’. In 2018, Shearsman Books published his translations of the Roman poet, Martial, in Mea Roma , an earlier version of which was awarded Honorable Mention in the American Literary Translators Association 2018 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.