Martine Bellen

Martine Bellen is an American poet, editor and librettist.

Life

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. Chicago, Illinois: Beard of Bees Press. May, 2009. http://www.beardofbees.com/pubs/Mothers_Daughters_and_Nightbirds.pdf. 
• The Vulnerability of Order. Copper Canyon Press. 2001. ISBN 9781556591570. 
• Further Adventures of the Monkey God. Spuyten Duyvil.
• Tales of Murasaki and other poems. Sun & Moon Press. 1999. ISBN 9781557133786. 
• 10 Greek poems. Dim Gray Bar Press. 1996.  (chapbook)
• Places people dare not enter. Potes & Poets Press. 1991. ISBN 9780937013403. 
• 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, ed (2007). Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 9781933368184. 
• Marlow Peerse Weaver, ed (2002). In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself. Mw Enterprises. ISBN 9780965413657. 
• Jonathan Safran Foer, ed (2001). A convergence of birds: original fiction and poetry inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell. Illustrator Joseph Cornell. D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. ISBN 9781891024306. 
• Michael Wiegers, ed (2003). This Art. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 9781556591846. 

References

1. ^ http://www.libarts.uco.edu/english/MFA/artists.htm
2. ^ http://www.artbook.com/0941964450.html
3. ^ http://www.word-power.co.uk/books/conjunctions-I9780941964678/
4. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=I9QCPQAACAAJ&dq=Martine+Bellen&lr=
5. ^ http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/02/martine-bellen-is-author-of-five.html
6. ^ http://www.allaboutopera.com/opera_resources.php?opera_ndx=5654
7. ^ http://broadwayworld.com/article/REDCAT_Set_To_Present_The_World_Premiere_Of_AH_91618_20090825

External links

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

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