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Columbia University; Columbia University School of the Arts.
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Jeanne Beaumont
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Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Court Green, Harper’s, Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Poetry Northwest, Witness, and World Literature Today, and she has had poems featured on The Writer"s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. In 2006, San Francisco film-maker Jay Rosenblatt made a film based on her poem "Afraid So" as narrated by Garrison Keillor. The film has been shown at several major international film festivals, and included on a program of Rosenblatt"s work screened at the Museum of Modern Art in October Beaumont was co-editor of American Letters & Commentary from 1992 to 2000.
She grew up in the suburban Philadelphia area and moved to New York City in 1983.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Eastern College and an Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Columbia University. She has taught at Rutgers University and regularly teaches at the 92nd Street Y. She served as the Director of The Frost Place Advanced Seminar from 2007–2010, and serves on the faculty for the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing.
1996 National Poetry Series, for Placebo Effects, William Matthews.
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