Martha Ronk
Martha Clare Ronk is an American poet.
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.
Awards
- 2006 National Poetry Series
- 2005 PEN America#PEN America [Literary Gala and PEN America Los Angeles Gala|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
- . Omnidawn Publishing. 2016.
- . Omnidawn Publishing. 2013.
- Recent Terrains photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000
- chapbook
- Prepositional. Los Angeles: 2004.
- Quotidian chapbook, a+bend books, 2000
- Allegories chapbook with artist Tom Wudl, ML & NLF Books, 1998 Emblems, chapbook, Instress, 1998
Short stories