![]() Hans Balmes and Martine at the International Lyric Festival in Frankfurt. ![]() View of Lake Como from Martine's studio in Villa Serbelloni (Bellagio, Italy) where Martine worked on anime poems. ![]() Dave Sewelson on alto sax playing "Adventures of Monkey God" with Martine. ![]() James Graham, artist of "Adventures of Monkey God" paintings before "Pigs and Pies in Tutus." |
Biography![]() Martine Bellen is the author of six collections of poetry including THE VULNERABILITY OF ORDER (Copper Canyon Press); FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE MONKEY GOD (Spuyten Duyvil); TALES OF MURASAKI AND OTHER POEMS (Sun & Moon Press), which won the National Poetry Series Award; and PLACES PEOPLE DARE NOT ENTER (Potes & Poets Press). A bilingual collection of her poetry has been published in Germany by Verlag im Waldgut (translator, Hans Jürgen Balmes). She has written the libretto for OVIDIANA, an opera based on Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES (composer, Matthew Greenbaum) that has been performed in New York City and Philadelphia and is presently collaborating with the composer David Rosenboom on an opera based on the DIAMOND SUTRA entitled AH! |
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