Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet.
Life
She graduated from Wellesley College, and Yale University with a Ph.D. She taught at Colorado University 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.
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
Works
Poetry
Ocular Proof. Omnidawn. 2016. Transfer of Qualities. Omnidawn. 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
Short stories
Memoir
Ploughshares
References
External links
Martha Ronk Papers MSS 697. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.