Martine Bellen

Selected Works

Poetry

"Earthrise Tango"

"Earth with coal in her coat flaps": in CONJUNCTIONS and AN ANATOMY OF CURIOSITY (MadHat Press, 2023)

"Is Your Name Miriam?"

The Gateless Gate and STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

"Who seeks an old poem?
A poem
long in the tooth
losing
its words?"

Published in BLACK SUN LIT and AN ANATOMY OF CURIOSITY (MadHat, 2023)

Interview & "A Thousand and One Gretels: Alone in the Wood"

Two Poems in CONJUNCTIONS

Work from CONJUNCTIONS

MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS & NIGHTBIRDS

A chapbook

Two Poems in A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine and An Anatomy of Curiosity (MadHat Press, 2023)

Werewolf howls/at the awakening wolf/moon, rippling and responsive/in an eyeball-sized sea

PennSound audio

Bellen readings and interviews

from 1993-2011

Interview

INTERVIEW on the Poetry Channel

Talking With Poets: Indran Amirthanayagam discusses An Anatomy of Curiosity with Bellen

Links

From The Academy of American Poets

AH! opera no-opera

Beard of Bees Press

Poetry Detonates Dualism: An Interview with Martine Bellen

On the occasion of her new collection, An Anatomy of Curiosity, poet Martine Bellen converses about koans, gates, elevators, hauntings, Psyche, and more.

Interviewed by Chris Stroffolino

Web-chapbook on Web del Sol

MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS & NIGHTBIRDS

A chapbook published by Beard of Bees Press

In these poems, I channel, or wiretap, Emily Dickinson's night dreams of Rumi, rooms, and refracted light that bounce from star to fear to Troubadour air. Please download and enjoy!