Martine Bellen Explained

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] and Web del Sol.^[3] As of 2014 she was a teacher at Rachel Carson Intermediate School

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

• Book: Mothers Daughters and Nightbirds . May 2009 . Beard of Bees Press . Chicago, Illinois . 62.
• Book: The Vulnerability of Order . Copper Canyon Press . 2001 . 978-1-55659-157-0.
• Book: Tales of Murasaki and other poems . Sun & Moon Press . 1999 . 978-1-55713-378-6.
• Book: Places people dare not enter . Potes & Poets Press . 1991 . 978-0-937013-40-3.
• 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)^[4] 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 ^[5]

Anthologies

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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: UCO: MFA program, College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090718205143/http://www.libarts.uco.edu/english/MFA/artists.htm . 2009-07-18 . 2014-10-08.
2. Book: Bellen, M. . Conjunctions: Tributes . Morrow, B. . Smith, L. . 2001 . Conjunctions . 9780941964456 . 2014-10-08.
3. Web site: Here Comes Everybody . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20051216181814/http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/02/martine-bellen-is-author-of-five.html . 2005-12-16 . 2014-10-08.
4. Web site: allaboutopera.com . 2014-10-08 . allaboutopera.com . 2011-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003092155/http://www.allaboutopera.com/opera_resources.php?opera_ndx=5654 . dead .
5. Web site: REDCAT Set To Present The World Premiere Of AH! 9/16-18 . 2014-10-08 . broadwayworld.com.