Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Jeanne Marie Beaumont is an American poet and author who has published five poetry books: Lessons with Scissors, Letters from Limbo, Burning of the Three Fires, Curious Conduct, and Placebo Effects. Her verse play Asylum Song premiered at HERE Arts in New York City in spring 2019.
Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Harper’s, The Nation, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Witness, and World Literature Today, and some were featured on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.
Beaumont was co-editor of American Letters & Commentary from 1992 to 2000 and served as a judge for the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award. In 2006, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt made a film based on her poem “Afraid So,” narrated by Garrison Keillor; it has been shown at international film festivals and was included in a MoMA program in October 2010.
She grew up near Philadelphia and moved to New York City in 1983. She earned a BA from Eastern College and an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. Beaumont has taught at Rutgers University and at the 92nd Street Y, directed The Frost Place Advanced Seminar from 2006 to 2010, and has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Website: jeannemariebeaumont.com
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