Jeanne Marie Beaumont signs copies of Burning of the Three Fires at the book launch .

Beaumont lectures in the Barn at the 2010 Frost Place Seminar.

In the Spring of 2012, Jeanne Marie Beaumont will again be teaching an advanced poetry workshop at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. The class will meet for 8 Thursday nights commencing February 16th. She is also on the poetry faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program of the University of Southern Maine.

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2011:

Reading and Workshop at The Writer’s Place, KC
Jeanne Marie Beaumont will be reading with Maryfrances Wagner on Friday Sept. 23, 2011, at 7:00 pm, at The Writer’s Place, 2007 Pennsylvania, in Kansas City, MO.
The next morning, at 10:00, she will be teaching a workshop on using fairy tales and myths as source for poetry and fiction. Complete details about these events are available here.

The 2011 Brattleboro Literary Festival
Jeanne Marie Beaumont will be a featured poet at the Brattleboro, VT, Literary Festival in October. She will be teaching an Advanced Poetry Workshop on Friday, October 14, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
Jeanne Marie will be reading with Kevin Young on Saturday, October 15th at 1:30 pm at the First Baptist Church. Complete details about the workshop and the weekend events can be found here.

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“Where's Wolf?” Becomes Part of “Snow White Turns Sixty”

Jeanne Marie Beaumont's poem “Where's Wolf?” which was first published in The Poets' Grimm, is included in a new song cycle composed by Dale Trumbore. “Snow White Turns Sixty,” based on a dozen fairy-tale themed poems by contemporary women poets (half of which appear in The Poets' Grimm) had its premiere in Los Angeles on November 5 and 7, 2010, at USC. The forty-minute work for female voices and piano, also includes poems by Barbara Crooker, Annie Finch, Kathleen Jesme, Julie Kane, Katharyn Howd Machan, Eileen Moeller, Eve Rivkah, and Diane Thiel. This summer the song cycle was recorded with soprano Gillian Hollis, and the CD is scheduled for a September 2011 release. Plans are in the works for future performances. More about he composer and the project can be found here.

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“Afraid So” Screened in MoMA Program

The short film made from Jeanne Marie Beaumont's poem “Afraid So” had six screenings in October at The Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of the program, “The Darkness of Day: Recent Films by Jay Rosenblatt.” Program details can be read here and a related interview with Rosenblatt, in which he talks about "Afraid So," is here. For more about the film, see below.

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Dana Awards Announced

Jeanne Marie Beaumont won the 2009 Dana Award for Poetry for her five-poem series "Letter from Limbo." More details here.

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Obama Poem Project Becomes a Book

Each day for the first 100 days of Obama’s presidency, Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg posted a poem by a contemporary American poet. Those poems have been published in a book from University of Iowa Press: Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days. The book can be ordered here.

Several audio readings of the poems are now being posted. You can listen to Jeanne Marie read her poem written for day 78, “Rite (to Forge Armor for an Orphan)” here.

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Poem Made into Award-winning Film

The short film, “Afraid So,” made by independent filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt using the text of Beaumont’s poem of the same name, as read by Garrison Keillor, has been shown at more than 20 festivals around the world since its premiere in Rotterdam in January of 2006. The film won honorable mention at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2nd prize at the Black Maria Film Festival, a special praising mention at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin), and an award of merit at the California State Fair. Other events where it has been screened include Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival. The film was shown at the 2007 AWP Conference as part of the panel “Poetry Meant to Be Seen,” and was screened at the 2008 Split This Rock Festival in Washington, DC. Most recently, it has been aired on the Independent Film Channel (IFC). http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/other.html

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