Ron Koertge, a long-time resident of South Pasadena, taught English and Creative Writing at Pasadena City College for thirty-seven years. A prolific writer, he has published more than a dozen books of poetry. Some of his most recent are Fever (Red Hen Press, 2006), Indigo (Red Hen Press, 2009), The Ogre’s Wife (Red Hen Press, 2013), and Vampire Planet. (Red Hen Press, 2015). He is the recipient of grants from the N.E.A. and the California Arts Council, has poems in two volumes of Best American Poetry (1999 and 2005), and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize winner. His most recent book from Red Hen Press is a 2018 comic-for-smart-people: Olympusville. He is also the author of the poem “Negative Space, ” short-listed for a 2017 Oscar in Animated Short Films.
3 Ebooks by Koertge Ron Koertge
Ron Koertge: Yellow Moving Van
Ron Koertge’s Yellow Moving Van is a collection of relaxed and buoyant and sometimes very funny poems that address Desi & Lucy with the same courtesy as Walt Whitman. The author celebrates his roots …
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€16.99
Ron Koertge: Geography of the Forehead
From short, acerbic lyrics to hilarious prose poems about nutty German professors and Dracula s teenage girlfriend, readers laugh out loud at simple turns of phrase before they are jerked sober by st …
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€29.47
Ron Koertge: Making Love to Roget’s Wife
In plain, unpretentious language, with brutal honesty, Ron Koertge can meld violence, love, human ugliness, joy, and modern depravity into a short lyric that makes us laugh out loud or socks us in th …
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€25.72