Martine Bellen is an American poet, editor and librettist.

Career

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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

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  • 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

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Poetry

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  • 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.
  • Tales of Murasaki and other poems. Sun & Moon Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55713-378-6.
  • Places people dare not enter. Potes & Poets Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-937013-40-3.
  • Magic Musée, bilingual collection of her poetry, published in Germany by Verlag im Waldgut (translator, Hans Jürgen Balmes)

Novella

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Opera libretto

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "UCO: MFA program, College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma". Archived from the original on 2009-07-18. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  2. ^ Bellen, M.; Morrow, B.; Smith, L. (2001). Conjunctions: Tributes. Conjunctions. ISBN 9780941964456. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  3. ^ "Here Comes Everybody". Archived from the original on 2005-12-16. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  4. ^ "allaboutopera.com". allaboutopera.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
  5. ^ "REDCAT Set To Present The World Premiere Of AH! 9/16-18". broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
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