Beth Bentley

Beth Singer Bentley (born October 7, 1921) is an American poet. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and received her BA and MFA from the University of Michigan, where her fiction won the Hopwood Award.[1] She settled in Seattle and was married to poet Nelson Bentley, a professor at the University of Washington, from 1952 until his death in 1990.[2] Her poems appeared in a number of magazines and journals including Poetry, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.[1] She published two full-length collections of poems, both with Ohio University Press: Phone Calls From the Dead in 1970 and Country of Resemblances in 1976.[3][4] She also published several chapbooks and edited a selection of the poetry of Hazel Hall.[5] Her poem "Northern Idylls" was included in The Best American Poetry 1989.[6]

References
  1. "Beth Singer Bentley papers, 1943-2013". Archives West. University of Washington Special Collections. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  2. Macdonald, Sally (29 December 1990). "Nelson Bentley, 72, Poet Laureate Of Northwest And UW Professor". Seattle Times. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  3. Bentley, Beth (1970). Phone Calls From the Dead. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.OCLC 133383
  4. Bentley, Beth (1976). Country of Resemblances. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780821401965.
  5. Hall, Hazel (1980). Selected Poems. Boise, Idaho: Ahsahta Press. ISBN 0916272141.
  6. Lehman, David, and Donald Hall, eds. (1989). The Best American Poetry, 1989. New York: Scribner's. ISBN 9780684190952.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)


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