Martha Zweig

Martha Zweig (born Philadelphia) is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review,^[1] Indiana Review,^[2] The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination,^[3] Manoa,^[4] Notre Dame Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Paris Review,^[5] The Progressive, Willow Springs.^[6]

She was raised in Moorestown, New Jersey where she attended the Quaker Moorestown friends' School. She earned her B.A. and an M.A.and a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan; and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College with a MFA. She lived in Hardwick, Vermont,^[7] and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice.^[8]

Honors and awards

• Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation for Vinegar Bone
• 1999 Whiting Writer's Award

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010)
• What Kind. Wesleyan University Press. 2003. ISBN 9780819566263. http://books.google.com/?id=0GqGKzHVt3sC&pg=PP1&dq=Martha+Zweig#v=onepage&q=. 
• Vinegar Bone. Wesleyan University Press. 1999. ISBN 9780819563590. http://books.google.com/?id=3wkWvspvxz8C&dq=Martha+Zweig&printsec=frontcover&q=. 

Chapbooks

• Where the raw moonlight loafs: a collection of poems. Warren Wilson College. 1998. 
• Powers. Vermont Council on the Arts. 1976. ISBN 9780916718077. 

References

1. ^ http://www3.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/Back_Issues/141.htm
2. ^ http://indianareview.org/content/issue242/fall02.html
3. ^ http://litimag.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol4/issue1/index.dtl
4. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/manoa/v013/13.2zweig.html
5. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/184
6. ^ http://www.ewu.edu/willowsprings/archives/issue44.html
7. ^ http://woman-stirred.blogspot.com/2008/07/martha-zweig-talks-with-woman-stirred.html
8. ^ Author Page > Tupelo Press > Martha Zweig Bio

External links

• Interview: Art One > Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 1996 > Interview with Martha Zweig by Ruth Armstrong
• Poem: "Featured Poet: Martha Zweig", Perihelion
• Author Page: Tupelo Press > Martha Zweig Bio
• Poems: "Intelligence"; "Chain Letter"; "The Particulars"; "Bad Fish"; "Spared"; "The Fleet", Boston Review, 23.1
• Poems: webdelsol (from Perihelion) > Poems by Martha Zweig > "Freshet"; "Outfit"; "Portrait"; "Untenable"; "Green Velvet"; "Brainwash"; "Midsummer Marital With Creosote Bush & Tattoo "; "Luminary"; "Cross-Country"; "Paternoster"
• Poems: "Provisions", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
• Poems: "Migraine", The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2001

Ploughshares^{[dead link]}

• Poem: "Bully". Ploughshares. Spring 2001. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=7125. ^{[dead link]}
• Poem: "False Memory". Ploughshares. Spring 2001. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=7093. ^{[dead link]}

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