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Martha-Ronk

Martha Ronk. Courtesy The Rumpus.

Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940) is an American poet and academic.

Life[]

Ronk was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

She graduated from Wellesley College, and received a Ph.D. from Yale University.

She taught at Colorado University, Otis College of Art and Design,[1] and Naropa University Summer Writing Program.[2] She teaches at Occidental College.[3]

She has lived in Los Angeles since 1971.

Recognition[]

  • 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]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Desire in L.A.: Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
  • Desert Geometries (illustrated by Don Briggs). Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1982.
  • Eyetrouble: Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
  • Allegories (chapbook; with artist Tom Wudl). Italy: ML & NLF Books, 1998
  • Emblems (chapbook). Saratoga, CA: Instress Press, 1998.
  • Quotidian (chapbook). San Francisco: a+bend books, 2000.
  • Recent Terrains: Terraforming the American west (with photos by Laurie Brown). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
  • Why / Why Not. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
  • In a Landscape of Having to Repeat. Richmond, CA: Omnidawn, 2004.
  • From Vertigo. New York: A Rest Press, 2005.
  • Vertigo: Poems (chapbook). Minnepolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2007.
  • My Partial Tongue (chapbook). Simi Valley, CA: Pie in the Sky Press, 2011.
  • Partially Kept. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books, 2012.
  • Transfer of Qualities. Richmond, CA: Omnidawn, 2013.

Short fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

  • State of Mind. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1995.
  • Displeasures of the Table: Memoir as caricature. Copenhagen & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2001.

Edited[]

  • Poetry as Purpose: Poetry from the western states (edited with Paul Vangelisti). Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 2002.
Martha_Ronk_@_The_Poetry_Project

Martha Ronk @ The Poetry Project


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]

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