Martine Bellen

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. She was a contributing editor of the literary journal Conjunctions, and Web del Sol. As of 2014 she was a teacher at Rachel Carson Intermediate School

Awards

American Academy of Poets Award 1997 National Poetry Series Award, for Tales of Murasaki and Others Poems

Works

Poetry

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) 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

Anthologies