Martha Clare Ronk (born 1940 Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet.
She graduated from Wellesley College, and Yale University with a Ph.D. She taught at Colorado University and Otis College of Art and Design, and Naropa University Summer Writing Program. and she currently teaches at Occidental College.
She has lived in Los Angeles since 1971.
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
"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.
"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.
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
Glass Grapes: And Other Stories. BOA Editions. 2008. ISBN 978-1-934414-13-2.
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.
"Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs". Ploughshares. Winter 2005–2006.
"Fishes". Ploughshares. Winter 1990–1991.
