Martha Zweig
{{Short description|American poet}}
{{infobox writer
| name = Martha Zweig
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|4|2}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJTZ-QFZN|title=FamilySearch.org|accessdate=12 December 2023}}
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| nationality = American
| genre = Poetry
| education = {{unbulleted list|University of Michigan|Warren Wilson College}}
| 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,{{cite web|url=http://woman-stirred.blogspot.com/2008/07/martha-zweig-talks-with-woman-stirred.html |accessdate=September 13, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708072619/http://woman-stirred.blogspot.com/2008/07/martha-zweig-talks-with-woman-stirred.html |archivedate=July 8, 2011 |title=Woman-Stirred & Woman-Stirred Radio: Martha Zweig talks with Woman-Stirred }} and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tupelopress.org/authors/mzweig|title=Author Page > Tupelo Press > Martha Zweig Bio|accessdate=12 December 2023}}
Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review,{{cite journal |last1=Zweig |first1=Martha |title=Migraine |journal=The Gettysburg Review |date=Spring 2001 |pages=80 }}{{psc|date=February 2024}} Indiana Review,{{cite web |url=http://indianareview.org/content/issue242/fall02.html |title= Indiana Review|website=indianareview.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726175026/http://indianareview.org/content/issue242/fall02.html |archive-date=July 26, 2011}} The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination,{{cite journal |last1=Zweig |first1=M. |title=January Domestic |journal=Literary Imagination |date=Winter 2002 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=127 |doi=10.1093/litimag/4.1.127 }}{{psc|date=February 2024}} Manoa,{{cite journal |last1=Zweig |first1=Martha |title=Two Poems |journal=Manoa |date=2001 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=33–34 |id={{Project MUSE|20627}} |doi=10.1353/man.2001.0072 |s2cid=201783918 }}{{psc|date=February 2024}} Notre Dame Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Paris Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/184 |title= The Paris Review - Spring 2008|website=www.theparisreview.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703110643/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/184 |archive-date=July 3, 2010}} The Progressive, Willow Springs.[http://www.ewu.edu/willowsprings/archives/issue44.html Willow Springs] ewu.edu {{dead link|date=September 2015}}
Honors and awards
- 1999 Whiting Award
Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
- Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010)
- {{cite book| title=What Kind| publisher=Wesleyan University Press| year=2003| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GqGKzHVt3sC&q=Martha+Zweig&pg=PP1| isbn=978-0-8195-6626-3}}
- {{cite book| title=Vinegar Bone| publisher=Wesleyan University Press| year=1999| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wkWvspvxz8C&q=Martha+Zweig| isbn=978-0-8195-6359-0 }}
Chapbooks
- {{cite book| title=Where the raw moonlight loafs: a collection of poems| publisher=Warren Wilson College| year=1998}}
- {{cite book| title=Powers| publisher=Vermont Council on the Arts| year=1976| isbn=978-0-916718-07-7 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/martha-zweig#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070705170649/http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr9/zweig/zweig.html Interview: Art One > Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 1996 > Interview with Martha Zweig by Ruth Armstrong]
- [http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/p-profile12.htm Poem: "Featured Poet: Martha Zweig", Perihelion]
- [http://www.tupelopress.org/authors/mzweig Author Page: Tupelo Press > Martha Zweig Bio]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081120093616/http://bostonreview.net/BR23.1/zweig.html Poems: "Intelligence"; "Chain Letter"; "The Particulars"; "Bad Fish"; "Spared"; "The Fleet", Boston Review, 23.1]
- [http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/zweig.htm 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"]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081202141106/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2000/spring/zweig-provisions/ Poems: "Provisions", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516205638/http://www3.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/Previous_Selections/zweig.html Poems: "Migraine", The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2001 ]