About John Ronan
As a playwright, Ronan premiered The Yeats Game in 2008 at Boston Playwrights' Theater and in 2012 at The Producers' Club in New York City. (TheYeatsGame.org.) Ronan's new play, The Apple Trap, will go into production in 2012. A new book of poetry, Marrowbone Lane, appeared in January 2009, published by The Backwaters Press; it 2010 it was named a "Highly Recommended" book by the Boston Authors Club. It is available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. 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. Books include The Catching Self and The Curable Corpse, published by Folly Cove in 1996 and 1999 respectively, and John J. Ronan: Greatest Hits 1975-2000, 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. He is also a former Ucross Fellow and Bread Loaf Scholar. In June of 2008 he was named to a two year term as Poet Laureate of Gloucester, MA. 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. It has also been featured on PBS stations, notably state-wide in Kentucky. 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 20th season in September, on Cape Ann TV, 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