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. http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/ronk.php. 
• "In a landscape of having to repeat", Poetry Foundation
• In a Landscape of Having to Repeat. Omnidawn. 2004. ISBN 9781890650179. 
• Why/Why Not. University of California Press. 2003. ISBN 9780520238114. http://books.google.com/?id=B5DlumZ3lAEC&pg=PA13&dq=Martha+Ronk&q=. 
• Eyetrouble. University of Georgia Press. 1998. ISBN 9780820319926. 
• Desert Geometries. Illustrator Don Suggs. Littoral Books. 1992. ISBN 9781557131515. 
• Recent Terrains photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000
• Desire in LA. University of Georgia Press. 1990. ISBN 9780820311760. 
• Vertigo, selections. Coffee House Press. 2007. ISBN 9781566892056.  chapbook
• 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 9781934414132. 

Memoir

• State of Mind. Sun & Moon Books. 1995. ISBN 9781557132369. 
• Displeasures of the Table. Green Integer. 2001. ISBN 9781892295446. 

Ploughshares^{[dead link]}

• "Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs". Ploughshares. Winter 2005-06. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=8358. ^{[dead link]}
• "Fishes". Ploughshares. Winter 1990-91. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2863. ^{[dead link]}

References

1. ^ http://www.otis.edu/academics/graduate_writing/gw_faculty.html
2. ^ http://www.coffeehousepress.org/vertigobio.asp
3. ^ http://departments.oxy.edu/ECLS/07%20webpage/ronk/index.htm
4. ^ http://arts.endow.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_19

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