[2] As a poet, Beaudoin is best known for inventing the "eye poem," a poetic form that combined words and pictures.
During the Depression era, Beaudoin lived in New Orleans and he was head of the Louisiana Historical Records Survey from 1936 through 1940.
Beaudoin served as a kind of father figure to many Memphis writers, and his house on the Mississippi River was the site of his literary salon.
And if you had a big decision you needed to make in your life, you would go and talk to Kenneth about it first because he always gave good advice."
Starting in the 1950s, Beaudoin supported himself as chief clerk in criminal intelligence with the Memphis Police Department.
The Society was heavily involved with early archaeological and geological surveys and excavations in eastern Arkansas, northern Mississippi, northeastern Alabama and western Tennessee.