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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

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Ocular Proof. Omnidawn Publishing. 2016. ISBN 978-1632430250
Transfer of Qualities. Omnidawn Publishing. 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

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




= Memoir

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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

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"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






External links


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

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