Martha Zweig

American poet

University of Michigan
Warren Wilson College

GenrePoetryNotable worksMonkey Lightning (2010)Notable awardsWhiting Award (1999)

Martha M. Zweig (born April 2, 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 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. She lives in Hardwick, Vermont,^[2] and volunteers for North Country Animal League, and for Restorative Justice.^[3]

Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Conduit, Field, Gettysburg Review,^[4] Indiana Review,^[5] The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination,^[6] Manoa,^[7] Notre Dame Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Paris Review,^[8] The Progressive, Willow Springs.^[9]

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

^ "FamilySearch.org". Retrieved 12 December 2023.
^ "Woman-Stirred & Woman-Stirred Radio: Martha Zweig talks with Woman-Stirred". Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
^ "Author Page > Tupelo Press > Martha Zweig Bio". Retrieved 12 December 2023.
^ Zweig, Martha (Spring 2001). "Migraine". The Gettysburg Review: 80.^{[non-primary source needed]}
^ "Indiana Review". indianareview.org. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011.
^ Zweig, M. (Winter 2002). "January Domestic". Literary Imagination. 4 (1): 127. doi:10.1093/litimag/4.1.127.^{[non-primary source needed]}
^ Zweig, Martha (2001). "Two Poems". Manoa. 13 (2): 33–34. doi:10.1353/man.2001.0072. S2CID 201783918. Project MUSE 20627.^{[non-primary source needed]}
^ "The Paris Review - Spring 2008". www.theparisreview.org. Archived from the original on July 3, 2010.
^ Willow Springs ewu.edu ^{[dead link]}

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. Archived from the original on 2001-08-23.
Poem: "False Memory". Ploughshares. Spring 2001. Archived from the original on 2001-08-23.