Beaumont lectures in the Barn at the 2009 Frost Place Seminar.

Beaumont reads at benefit for The New Orleans Musicans' Relief Fund.

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

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Jeanne Marie Beaumont teaches at The Frost Place, as director of the annual Frost Place Advanced Seminar. The 2010 seminar will be held from August 8th to 13th. This spring, she is teaching an advanced workshop at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. She is also a member of the poetry faculty for the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.

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At the Frost Place

On Wednesday August 11th at 8:00 pm, Jeanne Marie Beaumont will read with Frost Place 2010 Resident Poet Adam Halbur in the barn at The Frost Place, Franconia, NH, in conjunction with the annual seminar. Readings all week are open to the public. For more information see the website here.

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Other News

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 is now available for preordering 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

“Afraid So” Moves from Film Festivals to IFC

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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A Daily Poem

Poetry Calendar 2010

Jeanne Marie Beaumont’s poem “As If Nothing Happened” appears on November 10, 2010 in this unique calendar/anthology that features a poem for each day. Full information is available at the website: www.alhambrapublishing.com

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Click here to contact Jeanne Marie Beaumont to give a reading or teach a workshop.