Memphis Moment: Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin MEMPHIS, TN (WKNO) - Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (1913-1995) was dubbed the Poet Laureate of the River at the 1976 Mid-South Festival. His creations, called Eye Poems, were a combination of words and pictures and represented a whole new style of poetic verse with imagery. From the 1950s until 1980, Beaudoin worked as the chief clerk for the criminal intelligence branch of the Memphis Police Department.

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