Martha Ronk
Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet.
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Martha Ronk
- Born
- 1940
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Education
- Yale University · Wellesley College
- Languages
- English
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Life
She graduated from Wellesley College, and Yale University with a B.A. and Ph.D. She taught at the University of Colorado and Otis College of Art and Design, and Naropa University Summer Writing Program. and Occidental College. She joined the Occidental faculty in 1981 and retired as a professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2014. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1971.
Poetry
Poetry
• Ocular Proof. Omnidawn Publishing. 2016. • Transfer of Qualities. Omnidawn Publishing. 2013. • "A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN"; "GETTING A HOLD"; "WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?", Jacket 13, April 2001 * • "In a landscape of having to repeat", Poetry Foundation * * * * • Recent Terrains photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000 * • 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
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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
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- 1.Martha Ronk. oxy.edu.
- 2.Graduate Writing Faculty - Otis.
- 3.Vertigo: Coffee House Press: Books.
- 4.Cheers, Tears for 2014. Occidental College The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles. 2014-05-18.
- 5.2006. National Poetry Series.
- 6.Literary Awards Winners Archive. PEN America.
- 7.About Denver Quarterly. Denver Quarterly.
- 8.NEA Writers' Corner: Martha Ronk.
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