About John Ronan
Poetry has appeared in scores of national magazines and reviews, including New England Review, Three Penny Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Hollins Critic, and Notre Dame Review. A full length book of poetry, Marrowbone Lane, will appear in 2008, published by The Backwaters Press. Two other books of poetry, The Catching Self and The Curable Corpse, were published in 1996 and 1999, respectively, by Folly Cove Books. A fourth book, John J. Ronan: Greatest Hits 1975-2000, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2001. Work was also included in an anthology of prize-winning poetry, Sad Little Breathings, edited by Heather McHugh and published in hardcopy and electronically by PublishingOnline in 2001. In 1999, Ronan was named a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Literature. As a playwright, Ronan recently premiered The Yeats Game at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. The comedy ran from March 26-30 in front of full houses to rave reviews. Read a review by Kilian Melloy. As a journalist, Ronan has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, The Chicago Tribune and many other newspapers. He is a former columnist for the Essex County Papers and a former feature writer for The Boston Phoenix. In 2002 American Storyboard premiered a documentary on the National Historic Landmark schooner Adventure: Gloucester's Adventure: An American Story. The production won Telly and Aurora Gold awards for documentary excellence, and was featured on PBS outlets. A new effort, Women in American Horse Racing, began in 2005 and premiered in the spring of 2007. Another documentary, on wind farm generation of electricity, is now in pre-production. In addition, John has written script materials for the Detrick Lawrence Film Company, and others, often on science subjects. John Ronan is also the producer and host of "The Writer's Block with John Ronan," a television program featuring writers and other artists. The series, a first prize NECTA winner in 2005, began its 18th season in September, on Adelphia Channel 12, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
In 2000, John published a first book of humor, an E-book titled: Damned If I Dotage! The Boomer Faces Fifty. John Ronan is also Professor Emeritus at North Shore Community College, Danvers, MA, where he teaches film. |
John J. Ronan is
a poet, playwright and journalist. He is also president of