Martha Ronk
Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet.
Life
She graduated from Wellesley College, and Yale University with a Ph.D. She taught at Colorado University and Otis College of Art and Design,[1] and Naropa University Summer Writing Program.[2] and she currently teaches at Occidental College.[3]
She has lived in Los Angeles since 1971.
Awards
- 2006 National Poetry Series
- 2005 PEN USA award in poetry
- Lynda Hull Poetry Award
- 2002 The Denver Quarterly
- Artist Residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi
- MacArthur summer Research Grant
- Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Fellowship from Wellesley College
- Gertrude Stein Awards in Poetry
- NEA grant [4]
Works
Poetry
- "A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN"; "GETTING A HOLD"; "WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?", Jacket 13, April 2001
- "Objects". Boston Review. JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - "In a landscape of having to repeat", Poetry Foundation
- In a Landscape of Having to Repeat. Omnidawn Publishing. 2004. ISBN 978-1-890650-17-9.
- Why/Why Not. University of California Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-520-23811-4.
- Eyetrouble. University of Georgia Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8203-1992-6.
- Desert Geometries. Illustrator Don Suggs. Littoral Books. 1992. ISBN 978-1-55713-151-5.
- Recent Terrains photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000
- Desire in LA. University of Georgia Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8203-1176-0.
- Vertigo, selections. Coffee House Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-56689-205-6. chapbook
- Prepositional. Los Angeles: Mindmade Books 2004.
- Quotidian chapbook, a+bend books, 2000
- Allegories chapbook with artist Tom Wudl, ML & NLF Books, 1998 Emblems, chapbook, Instress, 1998
Short stories
- Glass Grapes: And Other Stories. BOA Editions. 2008. ISBN 978-1-934414-13-2.
Memoir
- State of Mind. Sun & Moon Books. 1995. ISBN 978-1-55713-236-9.
- Displeasures of the Table. Green Integer. 2001. ISBN 978-1-892295-44-6.
Ploughshares
- "Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs". Ploughshares. Winter 2005–2006. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007.
- "Fishes". Ploughshares. Winter 1990–1991. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
References
External links
- Martha Ronk Papers MSS 697. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
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