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[]
- Glass Grapes: Stories. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2008.
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.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ http://www.otis.edu/academics/graduate_writing/gw_faculty.html
- ↑ http://www.coffeehousepress.org/vertigobio.asp
- ↑ http://departments.oxy.edu/ECLS/07%20webpage/ronk/index.htm
- ↑ http://arts.endow.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_19
- ↑ Search results = au:Martha Ronk, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 28, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "No Sky" at the Boston Review
- Martha Ronk profile and 1 poem at the Academy of American Poets
- Martha Ronk: Three poems at Jacket
- Martha Ronk b. 1940 at the Poetry Foundation
- Prose
- Audio / video
- Books
- Martha Ronk at Amazon.com
- About
- review of Transfer of Qualities at The Rumpus
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