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Martha Ronk
Biography of Martha Ronk
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.
Martha Ronk Poems
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Location La
Never arriving in a city missing in locational drift plates shifting under building facades and whipped décor, seas rising and falling at the edge of amusements and surf. The migrations migrating elsewhere, -
Why Knowing Is (& Matisse's Woman With A...
Why knowing is a quality out of fashion and no one can decide to but slips into it or ends up with a painting one has never seen that quality of light before even before having seen it in between pages of another book and not remembering who knows
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Location La
Never arriving in a city missing in locational drift
plates shifting under building facades and whipped décor,
seas rising and falling at the edge of amusements
and surf. The migrations migrating elsewhere,
monarchs lost on their way south, children coming north
in droves on their way to anywhere else.
The city of lost souls blowing in the Santa Ana winds
and people who are not us no matter who we are.
Where is she now, he asks, what ever happened to the girl
