Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals. 10th Anniversary, Revised & Expanded Edition, 2025
“Beaudin is a cat in his own category of howl & highway hymn. It’s our luck that he’s made a book that will persist in our minds as a classic companion of blue moonways & on-the-road travels with Charlie.” –William Heyen, author of Nature: New & Selected Poems and the National Book Award finalist, Shoah Train. Read more.
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These Creatures of a Day. 2024
“Beaudin is the rare poet, a peculiar visionary, who can extract both humility and hilarity from the everyday. In this wonder collection, he casts out a lifeline to the world.” —Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. Read more.
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Life List: Poems. 2020
“Exquisite and full of life like the birds themselves. In each poem we find clarity and compassion as we stand on the razor-edge of uncertainty.” –Terry Tempest Williams, author of When Women Where Birds and Erosion. Read more.
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Anthologies Edited:
Poet to Poet: Elk River 30 for 30 Poetry Prompt Collection. 2025
“The poem is always there, waiting, in that cattail-speckled ditch at the roadside, that bird nest in the skeletal wintertime tree, that bit of conversation two barstools down, that half-remembered scrap of dream. The poet’s job is to be aware. To listen. To pay attention.”
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Voices. Elevated.: 10 Years of the Elk River Writers Workshop. 2025
Featuring a diverse collection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and essays from students and faculty alike, this book explores the power of language to connect us to land, each other and to the urgent issues of our time.
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Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Greater Yellowstone. 2016
“A treasure trove of courage and heart by the blessed rabble.” – David James Duncan, author of Sun House and My Story as Told by Water. Read more.
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