JOHN RONAN

 

JOHN RONAN (1944 - ) read his civic poem, “ Good Harbor, Home” at the 2002 inaugural of Gloucester mayor John Bell. It was published in The Gloucester Daily Times and set to music by David Buddin. Ronan has written The Catching Self and The Curable Corpse (Gloucester: Folly Cove Books 1996, 1999) and collected John Ronan’s Greatest Hits ( Johnson City, OH: Pudding House 2001). He taught for over two decades at North Shore Community College, where he was chairman of the Cultural Arts Department. Since 1990, he has hosted “The Writer’s Block,” a weekly public access cable television show. In 1999, he won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. In 2000, he scripted and co-produced the film “ Gloucester’s Adventure: An American Story,” a film about Gloucester’s celebrated schooner. John Ronan's work promoting poetry in Gloucester led to his serving as the city's Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010.   His highly praised poetry collection Marrowbone Lane  (Omaha NE: The Backwaters Press) came out in 2009.

 

from: theronan.org
courtesy: John Ronan