Martha Zweig Explained

Martha Zweig
Birth Date:	2 April 1942^[1]
Birth Place:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality:	American
Genre:	Poetry
Awards:	Whiting Award (1999)
Notableworks:	Monkey Lightning (2010)

Martha M. Zweig (born April 2, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010).

Life

She was raised in Moorestown Township, 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. She lives in Hardwick, Vermont,^[2] and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice.^[3]

Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review,^[4] Indiana Review,^[5] The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination,^[6] Manoa,^[7] Notre Dame Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Paris Review,^[8] The Progressive, Willow Springs.^[9]

Honors and awards

• 1999 Whiting Award

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010)
• Book: What Kind. Wesleyan University Press. 2003. 978-0-8195-6626-3.
• Book: Vinegar Bone. Wesleyan University Press. 1999. 978-0-8195-6359-0 .

Chapbooks

• Book: Where the raw moonlight loafs: a collection of poems. Warren Wilson College. 1998.
• Book: Powers. Vermont Council on the Arts. 1976. 978-0-916718-07-7 .

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• 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

• Poem: Bully . https://web.archive.org/web/20010823062303/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7125 . dead . 2001-08-23 . Ploughshares. Spring 2001.
• Poem: False Memory . https://web.archive.org/web/20010823050710/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7093. dead. 2001-08-23. Ploughshares. Spring 2001.

Notes and References

1. Web site: FamilySearch.org. 12 December 2023.
2. Web site: Woman-Stirred & Woman-Stirred Radio: Martha Zweig talks with Woman-Stirred . September 13, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110708072619/http://woman-stirred.blogspot.com/2008/07/martha-zweig-talks-with-woman-stirred.html . July 8, 2011 .
3. Web site: Author Page > Tupelo Press > Martha Zweig Bio. 12 December 2023.
4. Zweig . Martha . Migraine . The Gettysburg Review . Spring 2001 . 80 .
5. Web site: Indiana Review. indianareview.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726175026/http://indianareview.org/content/issue242/fall02.html . July 26, 2011.
6. Zweig . M. . January Domestic . Literary Imagination . Winter 2002 . 4 . 1 . 127 . 10.1093/litimag/4.1.127 .
7. Zweig . Martha . Two Poems . Manoa . 2001 . 13 . 2 . 33–34 . . 10.1353/man.2001.0072 . 201783918 .
8. Web site: The Paris Review - Spring 2008. www.theparisreview.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20100703110643/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/184 . July 3, 2010.
9. http://www.ewu.edu/willowsprings/archives/issue44.html Willow Springs