Martha Ronk

Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) 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 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 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

Short stories

Memoir

Ploughshares