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

Life[edit]

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

Poetry[edit]

• Ocular Proof. Omnidawn. 2016. ISBN 978-1632430250
• Transfer of Qualities. Omnidawn. 2013. ISBN 978-1890650827
• "A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN"; "GETTING A HOLD"; "WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?", Jacket 13, April 2001
• "Objects". Boston Review. January–February 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-10-02. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
• "In a landscape of having to repeat", Poetry Foundation
• In a Landscape of Having to Repeat. Omnidawn Publishing. 2004. ISBN 978-1-890650-17-9.
• Why/Why Not. University of California Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-520-23811-4.
• Eyetrouble. University of Georgia Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8203-1992-6.
• Desert Geometries. Illustrator Don Suggs. Littoral Books. 1992. ISBN 978-1-55713-151-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Recent Terrains photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000
• Desire in LA. University of Georgia Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8203-1176-0.
• Vertigo, selections. Coffee House Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-56689-205-6. 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[edit]

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

Memoir[edit]

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

Ploughshares ^{[dead link]}[edit]

• "Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs". Ploughshares. Winter 2005–2006. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007.
• "Fishes". Ploughshares. Winter 1990–1991. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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