{{short description|American poet (born 1940)}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Martha Ronk |url=https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/martha-ronk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010104537/https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/martha-ronk |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=oxy.edu}}</ref> She taught at the University of Colorado and Otis College of Art and Design,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.otis.edu/academics/graduate_writing/gw_faculty.html |title=Graduate Writing Faculty - Otis |accessdate=2009-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222040235/http://www.otis.edu/academics/graduate_writing/gw_faculty.html |archivedate=2009-02-22 }}</ref> and Naropa University Summer Writing Program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coffeehousepress.org/vertigobio.asp |title=Vertigo: Coffee House Press: Books |accessdate=2009-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120121347/http://www.coffeehousepress.org/vertigobio.asp |archivedate=2008-11-20 }}</ref> and Occidental College. She joined the Occidental faculty in 1981 and retired as a professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-05-18 |title=Cheers, Tears for 2014 |url=https://www.oxy.edu/news/cheers-tears-2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010090245/https://www.oxy.edu/news/cheers-tears-2014 |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2018-06-26 |work=Occidental College {{!}} The Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles |language=en}}</ref>

She has lived in Los Angeles since 1971.

==Awards== * 2006 National Poetry Series<ref>{{Cite web |title=2006 |url=https://nationalpoetryseries.org/year/2006/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010095801/https://nationalpoetryseries.org/year/2006/ |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=National Poetry Series}}</ref> * 2005 PEN USA award in poetry<ref>{{Cite web |title=Literary Awards Winners Archive |url=https://pen.org/literary-awards/literary-awards-winners-archive/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010103116/https://pen.org/literary-awards/literary-awards-winners-archive/ |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=PEN America}}</ref> * Lynda Hull Poetry Award * 2002 The Denver Quarterly<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Denver Quarterly |url=https://liberalarts.du.edu/english/journals-initiatives/denver-quarterly/about |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241010101655/https://liberalarts.du.edu/english/journals-initiatives/denver-quarterly/about |archive-date=2024-10-10 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=Denver Quarterly}}</ref> * 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 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://arts.endow.gov/features/Writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id%3D07_19 |title=NEA Writers' Corner: Martha Ronk |accessdate=2009-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825113627/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=07_19 |archivedate=2009-08-25 }}</ref>

==Works==

===Poetry=== *[https://www.amazon.com/Ocular-Proof-Martha-Ronk/dp/1632430258 ''Ocular Proof'']. Omnidawn Publishing. 2016. {{ISBN|978-1632430250}} *[https://www.amazon.com/Transfer-Qualities-Martha-Ronk/dp/189065082X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530022322&sr=1-1&keywords=Transfer+of+Qualities ''Transfer of Qualities'']. Omnidawn Publishing. 2013. {{ISBN|978-1890650827}} *[http://jacketmagazine.com/13/ronk-three-poems.html "A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN"; "GETTING A HOLD"; "WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?", ''Jacket 13'', April 2001] * {{cite journal| url=http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/ronk.php| title=Objects| date=January–February 2009| journal=Boston Review| access-date=2009-08-18| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002015617/http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/ronk.php| archive-date=2009-10-02| url-status=dead}} * [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179266 "In a landscape of having to repeat", ''Poetry Foundation''] *{{cite book |title=In a Landscape of Having to Repeat |publisher=Omnidawn Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-890650-17-9}} *{{cite book| title=Why/Why Not| publisher=University of California Press| year=2003| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5DlumZ3lAEC&q=Martha+Ronk&pg=PA13| isbn=978-0-520-23811-4 }} *{{cite book| title=Eyetrouble| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=1998 | isbn=978-0-8203-1992-6 }} *{{cite book| title=Desert Geometries| others=Illustrator Don Suggs| publisher=Littoral Books| year=1992| isbn=978-1-55713-151-5 }} *''Recent Terrains'' photographer Laurie Brown, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins Press, 2000 *{{cite book| title=Desire in LA| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=1990| isbn=978-0-8203-1176-0 }} *{{cite book| title=Vertigo, selections| publisher=Coffee House Press| year=2007| isbn=978-1-56689-205-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/vertigopoems00ronk}} chapbook *''Prepositional.'' Los Angeles: [http://mindmadebooks.com/ 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=== *{{cite book| title=Glass Grapes: And Other Stories| publisher=BOA Editions| year=2008| isbn=978-1-934414-13-2 }}

===Memoir=== *{{cite book| title=State of Mind| publisher=Sun & Moon Books| year=1995 | isbn=978-1-55713-236-9 }} *{{cite book| title=Displeasures of the Table| publisher=Green Integer| year=2001| isbn=978-1-892295-44-6 }}

===''Ploughshares'' === * {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=8358 |title=Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs |date=Winter 2005–2006 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609014550/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8358 |archivedate=June 9, 2007 }} * {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2863 |title=Fishes |date=Winter 1990–1991 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104025259/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=2863 |archivedate=November 4, 2007 }}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0697.html Martha Ronk Papers] MSS 697. [http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/ Special Collections & Archives], UC San Diego Library.

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