Jeanne Marie Beaumont is an American poet and author of five poetry collections: "Lessons with Scissors," Letters from Limbo, Burning of the Three Fires, Curious Conduct, and Placebo Effects.
[2] Beaumont was the co-editor of American Letters & Commentary from 1992 to 2000 and was a judge for the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award.
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 was included on a program of Rosenblatt's work screened at the Museum of Modern Art in October 2010.
[3] Beaumont grew up in the suburban Philadelphia area and moved to New York City in 1983.