Martine Bellen

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Martine Bellen is an American poet, editor and librettist.

Career[]

She has taught at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York University, Rutgers University, and Hofstra University. She was writer in residence at University of Central Oklahoma.^[1] She was a contributing editor of the literary journal Conjunctions,^[2][3][4] and Web del Sol.^[5]

Awards[]

• New York Foundation for the Arts
• Fund for Poetry
• American Academy of Poets Award
• 1997 National Poetry Series Award, for Tales of Murasaki and Others Poems

Works[]

Poetry[]

• "Renga", Conjunctions 21, Fall 1993
• "Calamity Jane", Web Del Sol
• "For the Living: A Chapbook", The Drunken Boat
• Mothers Daughters and Nightbirds (PDF). Chicago, Illinois: Beard of Bees Press. May 2009.
• The Vulnerability of Order. Copper Canyon Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55659-157-0.
• Further Adventures of the Monkey God. Spuyten Duyvil.
• Tales of Murasaki and other poems. Sun & Moon Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55713-378-6.
• 10 Greek poems. Dim Gray Bar Press. 1996. (chapbook)
• Places people dare not enter. Potes & Poets Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-937013-40-3.
• GHOSTS! Spuyten Duyvil. 2011.
• Magic Musée, bilingual collection of her poetry, published in Germany by Verlag im Waldgut (translator, Hans Jürgen Balmes)

Novella[]

• 2X (Squared). BlazeVOX Books. 2010.

Opera Libretto[]

• Ovidiana, an opera based on Ovid’s Metaporphoses (composer, Matthew Greenbaum)^[6] that has been performed in New York City and Philadelphia.
• Ah! Opera No-Opera, composer David Rosenboom, performed at REDCAT on September 16, 17 & 18, 2009 ^[7]

Anthologies[]

• Denise Duhamel; David Trinidad; Maureen Seaton, eds. (2007). Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1-933368-18-4.
• Marlow Peerse Weaver, ed. (2002). In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself. Mw Enterprises. ISBN 978-0-9654136-5-7.
• Jonathan Safran Foer, ed. (2001). A convergence of birds: original fiction and poetry inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell. Illustrator Joseph Cornell. Distributed Art Publishers. ISBN 978-1-891024-30-6.
• Michael Wiegers, ed. (2003). This Art. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-1-55659-184-6.

References[]

External links[]

• "Author's website"
• "Martine Bellen", Here Comes Everybody, February 12, 2005

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