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Marc Beaudin, poet

Marc Beaudin is a poet, theatre artist and performer based in Livingston, Montana. He has released two spoken word/jazz albums: From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite, featuring music by members of the internationally renowned “low-rock” band Morphine, and These Creatures of a Day, featuring music by Mike Johnston and Mike Gilmore of the acclaimed, experimental jazz collective the Northwoods Improvisers. He has performed his poetry with numerous jazz, blues and rock musicians, including Bill Payne (Little Feat), Billy Conway (Morphine), The Big Sky Jazz Trio, and the Northwoods Improvisors, and has shared stages with 60s legends Country Joe McDonald, Ed Sanders and John Sinclair. His poetry and other writing have been collected in several books, including the road trip/hitchhiking memoir Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals. His work is widely anthologized in publications dedicated to environmental and social justice, and has appeared in Orion, Cutthroat, Haiku Journal, Whitefish Review, Montana Quarterly, and Big Sky Journal, among others.

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“A jazzy, freewheeling, rollicking road trip into the beating heart of the Eternal Now. Hop in and enjoy the ride.” –Montana Quarterly

“Vagabond Song unfolds like an impressionistic series of trip logs reminiscent of Kerouac and blending elements of hippie folk pioneer Richard Brautigan with the broad quest also shared by Ken Kesey for discovering both sturdiness and serenity within the parameters of America’s remote landscapes. The work is as ambitious as it is fluid.” –The Review Magazine

“Beaudin’s poems are a soothing tonic for this moment, … They too, capture this moment’s agonizing truth: life on Earth teeters on a precipice of immense social and environmental change