Martha Zweig
Martha Zweig (born Philadelphia) is an American poet. Her most recent book is Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010).
Life
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,[1] and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice.[2]
Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review,[3] Indiana Review,[4] The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination,[5] Manoa,[6] Notre Dame Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Paris Review,[7] The Progressive, Willow Springs.[8]
Honors and awards
- 1999 Whiting Award
Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
- Monkey Lightning (Tupelo Press, 2010)
- What Kind. Wesleyan University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8195-6626-3.
- Vinegar Bone. Wesleyan University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8195-6359-0.
Chapbooks
- Where the raw moonlight loafs: a collection of poems. Warren Wilson College. 1998.
- Powers. Vermont Council on the Arts. 1976. ISBN 978-0-916718-07-7.
References
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110708072619/http://woman-stirred.blogspot.com/2008/07/martha-zweig-talks-with-woman-stirred.html. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
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External links
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Interview: Art One > Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 1996 > Interview with Martha Zweig by Ruth Armstrong
- Poem: "Featured Poet: Martha Zweig", Perihelion
- Author Page: Tupelo Press > Martha Zweig Bio
- Poems: "Intelligence"; "Chain Letter"; "The Particulars"; "Bad Fish"; "Spared"; "The Fleet", Boston Review, 23.1
- Poems: webdelsol (from Perihelion) > Poems by Martha Zweig > "Freshet"; "Outfit"; "Portrait"; "Untenable"; "Green Velvet"; "Brainwash"; "Midsummer Marital With Creosote Bush & Tattoo "; "Luminary"; "Cross-Country"; "Paternoster"
- Poems: "Provisions", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
- Poems: "Migraine", The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2001
Ploughshares
- Poem: "Bully". Ploughshares. Spring 2001.
- Poem: "False Memory". Ploughshares. Spring 2001.