David Beaudouin, 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 After All (Bowerbox Press, 2024). A new collection, On Down the Line (UnCollected Press) is forthcoming in 2025. His poem “Annunciation” was selected for inclusion in a new edition of “Best American Poetry 2025.”