Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

Life

She graduated from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

, and

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

with a Ph.D. She taught at

Colorado University The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, and the University of Co ...

and

Otis College of Art and Design Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aerospace headquarte ...

, and

Naropa University Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university describes itself as B ...

Summer Writing Program. and

Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...

. She joined the Occidental faculty in 1981 and retired as a professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies in 2014. She has lived in

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since 1971.

Awards

* 2006

National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and cho ...

* 2005 PEN USA award in poetry * Lynda Hull Poetry Award * 2002 The Denver Quarterly * Artist Residencies at the

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell ...

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.

* * ttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179266 "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

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''Ploughshares ''

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References

External links

MSS 697
Special Collections & Archives
UC San Diego Library. 1940 births Living people Writers from Cleveland Wellesley College alumni Yale University alumni University of Colorado faculty Otis College of Art and Design faculty Naropa University faculty Occidental College faculty American women poets Chapbook writers American women academics 21st-century American women 20th-century American poets {{US-poet-1940s-stub