Opening April 4
Concrete Poetry 2: David Beaudouin, “Microverses” (images below)
The Ivy Bookshop gardens, Baltimore, MD
April 4-30, 2025
The Ivy Bookshop gardens, Baltimore, MD
April 4-30, 2025
David Beaudouin reading at Concrete Poetry 2
April 18 6pm
The Ivy Bookshop gardens, Baltimore, MD
Rain location: The Ivy Bookshop back patio
https://www.theivybookshop.
David Beaudouin’s Afters, a poetry chapbook letter press printed and bound by Bowerbox Press, will be available for purchase (images below)
April 18 6pm
The Ivy Bookshop gardens, Baltimore, MD
Rain location: The Ivy Bookshop back patio
https://www.theivybookshop.
David Beaudouin’s Afters, a poetry chapbook letter press printed and bound by Bowerbox Press, will be available for purchase (images below)
The Ivy Bookshop and Julia Kim Smith are pleased to present “Microverses” by David Beaudouin throughout April at Concrete Poetry 2. In celebration of National Poetry Month, a series of four “Microverses” will be on display in the bookshop’s gardens, changing every Friday in April.
“Microverses”
David Beaudouin
“The one-line poem is a guilty pleasure for many contemporary poets. This short form has its antecedents in both the European epigraph and the Asian haiku—and then flourished in post-war American poetry, as evidenced by the work of poets such as Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan, among others. The invitation to compose these “microverses” for the Concrete Poetry 2 project has been a welcome challenge—and an opportunity to see my work fly from the page and land in the outside world.”
—David Beaudouin
March 16, 2025David Beaudouin Biography (images below)
David Beaudouin, 73, native to Baltimore, MD, is a widely published poet and performer. He was the founder of Tropos Press (1976-2001), one of the region’s earliest and most respected alternative literary presses, as well as THE PEARL (1980-2001), a Baltimore journal of the literary and “spontaneous” arts. He served for more than a decade as a literary panelist for the Mayor’s Committee on Arts and Culture and was instrumental in the creation of the Artscape Literary Arts Award. Additionally, he has created and hosted a number of public reading series in the Baltimore area, most recently “Blabbermouth.” David also has collaborated with the visual artists Thea Osato and Julia Kim Smith on multimedia projects, and has co-produced two documentary shorts, Fluid Movement and One Nice Thing. Published works include Ten Poems (hors de commerce, 1973), Gig (Maryland Writers Council, 1976), Catenae (Apathy Press, 1989), Ode to Stella (Apathy Press, 1990), American Night (Blue Nude Press, 1992), Human Nature (hors de commerce, 1995), and Afters (Bowerbox Press, 2024). A new collection, On Down the Line (UnCollected Press) is forthcoming in 2025. His poem “Annunciation” was selected for inclusion in Scribner’s The Best American Poetry 2025.
“The one-line poem is a guilty pleasure for many contemporary poets. This short form has its antecedents in both the European epigraph and the Asian haiku—and then flourished in post-war American poetry, as evidenced by the work of poets such as Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan, among others. The invitation to compose these “microverses” for the Concrete Poetry 2 project has been a welcome challenge—and an opportunity to see my work fly from the page and land in the outside world.”
—David Beaudouin
March 16, 2025David Beaudouin Biography (images below)
David Beaudouin, 73, native to Baltimore, MD, is a widely published poet and performer. He was the founder of Tropos Press (1976-2001), one of the region’s earliest and most respected alternative literary presses, as well as THE PEARL (1980-2001), a Baltimore journal of the literary and “spontaneous” arts. He served for more than a decade as a literary panelist for the Mayor’s Committee on Arts and Culture and was instrumental in the creation of the Artscape Literary Arts Award. Additionally, he has created and hosted a number of public reading series in the Baltimore area, most recently “Blabbermouth.” David also has collaborated with the visual artists Thea Osato and Julia Kim Smith on multimedia projects, and has co-produced two documentary shorts, Fluid Movement and One Nice Thing. Published works include Ten Poems (hors de commerce, 1973), Gig (Maryland Writers Council, 1976), Catenae (Apathy Press, 1989), Ode to Stella (Apathy Press, 1990), American Night (Blue Nude Press, 1992), Human Nature (hors de commerce, 1995), and Afters (Bowerbox Press, 2024). A new collection, On Down the Line (UnCollected Press) is forthcoming in 2025. His poem “Annunciation” was selected for inclusion in Scribner’s The Best American Poetry 2025.
