Bio and Bibliography for Belle Randall

from Berkeley Daze

 


 
BELLE RANDALL grew up in the Bay Area. She played St. Joan in The Lark (University of San Francisco, 1958). As an undergraduate at Berkeley, she published her first poems in Poetry (1961) and won Third Prize in the anthology The Best Poems of 1961. After living in Greenwich Village, she returned to Berkeley and opened the Jabberwock, a cabaret. In 1969, she was awarded a Wallace Stegner fellowship to Stanford. Her first book of poems was 101 Different Ways of Playing Solitaire and Other Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973). In 2005-7, she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts grant in Poetry. She lives in Seattle with her husband Joe Edwards.

Books
True Love, a chapbook (Wood Works Press, 2003)
The Wax Museum, a chapbook (d-Press)
Drop Dead Beautiful, a chapbook (Wood Works 1998)
The Orpheus Sedan, a chapbook (Copper Canyon Press, 1980)
One Hundred One Different Ways of Playing Solitaire (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973)

Journals
Her poems and essays have appeared Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, PN Review (England), and other journals. She has poems forthcoming in: The Seattle Review, Common Knowledge and First Things (Canada).

Anthologies
A Gift of Tongues (Copper Canyon Press, 1996)
Contemporary Religious Poetry (Paulist Press, 1987).

Belle is the Poetry Editor of Common Knowledge (Duke University Press, 1990-present).

 

 


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