Martha Zweig (born Philadelphia) is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010).
She was raised in Moorestown Township, New Jersey where she attended the Quaker Moorestown Friends School. She earned her B.A. and an M.A.and a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan; and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College with a MFA. She lived in Hardwick, Vermont, and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice.
Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination,Manoa, Notre Dame Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Paris Review, The Progressive, Willow Springs.
The cold orange hands of the
salamanders still wrap and
unwrap the baby he dreams he was
...
Skis underfoot, I was playing at remuda-
just in my ears, at first, because, stride
for stride, the leathery snow
...
Evening: the ruler settles upon the roost.
All day long we made this much peace. The rest
of the raw material left in the world
...
I stood security the first six weeks.
Nobody minded the moon. The sun
you could reason with. Other
...