John J. Ronan
Publications
About John
My wife, Sandy, and I live in Gloucester. She is still working as a counselor and I continue to scribble.
Professionally, I am a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry, a former Ucross Fellow, Bread Loaf Scholar, and Poet Laureate of Gloucester, MA. My book Marrowbone Lane (Backwaters/University of Nebraska, 2010) was a Highly Recommended selection of the Boston Authors Club. That book was followed by Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown (Backwaters/University of Nebraska, 2017). A new book, The Idea of Light, appeared in June, 2025. Linda Pastan, who was a personal friend, called my work "Very good indeed: original, assured, just a touch sardonic."
Poems have appeared in Times Literary Supplement, Main Street Rag, Woven Tale, Thrush, Confrontation, Folio, Threepenny Review, The Recorder, Hollins Critic, New England Review, Southern Poetry Review, Louisville Review, Greensboro Review, Notre Dame Review, NYQ, et. al.