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Teaching

92nd St. Y

Jeanne Marie will be teaching the year-long Poetry Manuscript workshop at the 92nd Street Y. The class will run for eight Thursdays in Fall 2019: October 17-December12,  and eight Thursdays in Spring 2020: February 20-April 23. 

Full information here.

Being With Poets

2nd Annual All-day Intensive Workshop to Benefit the EJI

The following workshop has been canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Baron Wormser are co-instructors for these weekend-long workshops that afford the opportunity to delve deeply into a poet’s work in an intimate setting. Past workshops have been focused on Dickinson, Levertov, Millay, Rilke, Roethke, Plath and Shakespeare, among others. The next weekend will be devoted to the work of W. S. Merwin and will be held in Manhattan on May 16 and 17, 2020. For more information or to register, contact baronwormser@gmail.com.

The following workshop has been canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jeanne Marie will be conducting this benefit workshop on Saturday, April 25, 2020 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The class is currently full, but to be put on the waiting list or to receive early notice for future workshops, please contact Jeanne Marie.


Testimonials

She honors every poetic effort . . . She has an unerring eye for the telling detail, as well as a lively sense of humor.
— Bo Niles, author, intimate geographies, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd St.
Jeannie’s consideration of your work, and her attention to detail enforce one’s love for the word and craft.
— Julie Standig, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd St. Y
I’ve always trusted Jeanne Marie with my poems; she brings to them a generous regard and attentive mind, listening deeply to the current that travels below the words and helping to make it sing.
— Julie Poitras Santos, Stonecoast MFA alumna, instructor, Maine College of Art
Jeannie was a tremendously kind and astute mentor, and absolutely key in transforming my work-in-progress into a polished and publishable manuscript.
— Lissa Kiernan, author, Two Faint Lines in the Violet, Stonecoast MFA alumna