Martha Ronk Explained

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 the University of Colorado and Otis College of Art and Design,^[1] and Naropa University Summer Writing Program.^[2] and Occidental College. She joined the Occidental faculty in 1981 and retired as a professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2014.^[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

• Ocular Proof. Omnidawn. 2016.
• Transfer of Qualities. Omnidawn. 2013.
• "A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN"; "GETTING A HOLD"; "WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?", Jacket 13, April 2001
• Objects. January–February 2009. Boston Review. 2009-08-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20091002015617/http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/ronk.php. 2009-10-02. dead.
• "In a landscape of having to repeat", Poetry Foundation
• Book: In a Landscape of Having to Repeat. Omnidawn Publishing. 2004. 978-1-890650-17-9 .
• Book: Why/Why Not. University of California Press. 2003. 978-0-520-23811-4 .
• Book: Eyetrouble. University of Georgia Press. 1998 . 978-0-8203-1992-6 .
• Book: Desert Geometries. Illustrator Don Suggs. Littoral Books. 1992. 978-1-55713-151-5 .
• Recent Terrains photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000
• Book: Desire in LA. University of Georgia Press. 1990. 978-0-8203-1176-0 .
• Book: Vertigo, selections. Coffee House Press. 2007. 978-1-56689-205-6. registration. 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

• Book: Glass Grapes: And Other Stories. BOA Editions. 2008. 978-1-934414-13-2 .

Memoir

• Book: State of Mind. Sun & Moon Books. 1995 . 978-1-55713-236-9 .
• Book: Displeasures of the Table. Green Integer. 2001. 978-1-892295-44-6 .

Ploughshares

• Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs . Winter 2005–2006 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070609014550/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8358 . June 9, 2007 .
• Fishes . Winter 1990–1991 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071104025259/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=2863 . November 4, 2007 .

External links

• Martha Ronk Papers MSS 697. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Graduate Writing Faculty - Otis . 2009-08-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090222040235/http://www.otis.edu/academics/graduate_writing/gw_faculty.html . 2009-02-22 .
2. Web site: Vertigo: Coffee House Press: Books . 2009-08-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081120121347/http://www.coffeehousepress.org/vertigobio.asp . 2008-11-20 .
3. News: Cheers, Tears for 2014. 2014-05-18. Occidental College The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles. 2018-06-26. en.
4. Web site: NEA Writers' Corner: Martha Ronk . 2009-08-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090825113627/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_19 . 2009-08-25 .