Martha Ronk

{{short description|American poet (born 1940)}}

Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Wellesley College, and Yale University with a B.A. and Ph.D.{{Cite web |title=Martha Ronk |url=https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/martha-ronk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010104537/https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/martha-ronk |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=oxy.edu}} She taught at the University of Colorado and Otis College of Art and Design,{{cite web|url=http://www.otis.edu/academics/graduate_writing/gw_faculty.html |title=Graduate Writing Faculty - Otis |accessdate=2009-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222040235/http://www.otis.edu/academics/graduate_writing/gw_faculty.html |archivedate=2009-02-22 }} and Naropa University Summer Writing Program.{{cite web|url=http://www.coffeehousepress.org/vertigobio.asp |title=Vertigo: Coffee House Press: Books |accessdate=2009-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120121347/http://www.coffeehousepress.org/vertigobio.asp |archivedate=2008-11-20 }} and Occidental College. She joined the Occidental faculty in 1981 and retired as a professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2014.{{Cite news |date=2014-05-18 |title=Cheers, Tears for 2014 |url=https://www.oxy.edu/news/cheers-tears-2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010090245/https://www.oxy.edu/news/cheers-tears-2014 |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2018-06-26 |work=Occidental College {{!}} The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles |language=en}}

She has lived in Los Angeles since 1971.

Awards

  • 2006 National Poetry Series{{Cite web |title=2006 |url=https://nationalpoetryseries.org/year/2006/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010095801/https://nationalpoetryseries.org/year/2006/ |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=National Poetry Series}}
  • 2005 PEN USA award in poetry{{Cite web |title=Literary Awards Winners Archive |url=https://pen.org/literary-awards/literary-awards-winners-archive/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010103116/https://pen.org/literary-awards/literary-awards-winners-archive/ |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=PEN America}}
  • Lynda Hull Poetry Award
  • 2002 The Denver Quarterly{{Cite web |title=About Denver Quarterly |url=https://liberalarts.du.edu/english/journals-initiatives/denver-quarterly/about |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010101655/https://liberalarts.du.edu/english/journals-initiatives/denver-quarterly/about |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=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 {{cite web|url=http://arts.endow.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id%3D07_19 |title=NEA Writers' Corner: Martha Ronk |accessdate=2009-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825113627/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_19 |archivedate=2009-08-25 }}

Works

=Poetry=

  • [https://www.amazon.com/Ocular-Proof-Martha-Ronk/dp/1632430258 Ocular Proof]. Omnidawn Publishing. 2016. {{ISBN|978-1632430250}}
  • [https://www.amazon.com/Transfer-Qualities-Martha-Ronk/dp/189065082X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530022322&sr=1-1&keywords=Transfer+of+Qualities Transfer of Qualities]. Omnidawn Publishing. 2013. {{ISBN|978-1890650827}}
  • [http://jacketmagazine.com/13/ronk-three-poems.html "A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN"; "GETTING A HOLD"; "WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?", Jacket 13, April 2001]
  • {{cite journal| url=http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/ronk.php| title=Objects| date=January–February 2009| journal=Boston Review| access-date=2009-08-18| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002015617/http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/ronk.php| archive-date=2009-10-02| url-status=dead}}
  • [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179266 "In a landscape of having to repeat", Poetry Foundation]
  • {{cite book |title=In a Landscape of Having to Repeat |publisher=Omnidawn Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-890650-17-9}}
  • {{cite book| title=Why/Why Not| publisher=University of California Press| year=2003| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5DlumZ3lAEC&q=Martha+Ronk&pg=PA13| isbn=978-0-520-23811-4 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Eyetrouble| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=1998 | isbn=978-0-8203-1992-6 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Desert Geometries| others=Illustrator Don Suggs| publisher=Littoral Books| year=1992| isbn=978-1-55713-151-5 }}
  • Recent Terrains photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000
  • {{cite book| title=Desire in LA| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=1990| isbn=978-0-8203-1176-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Vertigo, selections| publisher=Coffee House Press| year=2007| isbn=978-1-56689-205-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/vertigopoems00ronk}} chapbook
  • Prepositional. Los Angeles: [http://mindmadebooks.com/ 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=

  • {{cite book| title=Glass Grapes: And Other Stories| publisher=BOA Editions| year=2008| isbn=978-1-934414-13-2 }}

=Memoir=

  • {{cite book| title=State of Mind| publisher=Sun & Moon Books| year=1995 | isbn=978-1-55713-236-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Displeasures of the Table| publisher=Green Integer| year=2001| isbn=978-1-892295-44-6 }}

=''Ploughshares'' =

  • {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=8358 |title=Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs |date=Winter 2005–2006 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609014550/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8358 |archivedate=June 9, 2007 }}
  • {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2863 |title=Fishes |date=Winter 1990–1991 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104025259/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=2863 |archivedate=November 4, 2007 }}

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