Best Jeri Rogers Podcasts (2024)

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Dorothy Gillespie: Groundbreaking Documentary - COURAGE, INDEPENDENCE AND COLOR 24:21

2M ago24:21

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Join the conversation with son Gary Isreal, President of the Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation, and daughter Dorien Gillespie Bietz, children of Dorothy Gillespie, as they reflect on the many gifts their mother had in a groundbreaking documentary Courage, Independence and Color. Artemis Journal was borne out of writing workshops for abused women. Ms.…

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Jim Minick, Poet 34:25

2M ago34:25

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Jim Minick is the author or editor of eight books, including Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas (nonfiction), Fire Is Your Water (novel), and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Artemis Journal, Orion, Shenandoah, App…

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Sarah EK Muse, Award-winning Artist, Jewelry Designer, & Goldsmith 38:49

3M ago38:49

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Sarah EK Muse, a native Virginian, is an award-winning artist, jewelry designer, and goldsmith known for her exquisite bespoke jewels that celebrate personal narratives and strengthen connections to the past, present, and future. Serving as the backdrop for her inspirations, her private atelier, Studio 12, formerly a two-stall stable, is nestled in…

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Michele Evans, Poet and Teacher 22:02

4M ago22:02

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Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a poet, writer, high school English teacher, and adviser for her school's literary magazine, Unbound. Before becoming an educator, Michele Evans studied at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts; King’s College in London, England; and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland i…

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Linda Atkinson, artist 33:31

5M ago33:31

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Linda Atkinson is a sculptor living and working in Botetourt County. She taught art history for 21 years at Virginia Western Community College, as well as studio courses for University /Santa Cruz, Hollins College, Roanoke College, and Radford University among others. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisc…

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A.J. Gnuse, Artemis Journal Literary Editor and Writer Girl in the Walls 35:12

6M ago35:12

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A. J. Gnuse is the bestselling author of Girl in the Walls, published in 2021. He received an MFA in fiction from UNC Wilmington, and his writing has appeared in the Guardian, Gulf Coast, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review, and other venues. A native of New Orleans, he lives in Texas, where he is a literary co-editor of Artemis Journal alongside his …

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Javon Jackson, Jazz Saxophonist collaborating with acclaimed Poet, Nikki Giovanni 37:40

8M ago37:40

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The Moss Center in Blacksburg, Virginia presented a live performance and historic collaboration between renowned poet and Virginia Tech legend Nikki Giovanni and saxophonist-composer and former Jazz Messenger Javon Jackson. Their collaboration for over a year has yielded the CD The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni. For an intimate jazz performanc…

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Dr. Sandee McGlaun, Poet, Reading by Skip Brown 3:28

9M ago3:28

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River Sequence (a Meditation) 1. Riffle This moment: like a fat round plum smooth as stone tumbled downstream, at the edge of stillness poised to roll. How long does it take a rock to travel the length of a river? How long does it take a mind to wind its way through a memory? Hold the present, juicy and heavy, in the palm of your hand. Loosen the f…

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Lara Taubman, Songwriter 34:19

9M ago34:19

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New York-based country-soul singer/songwriter Lara Taubman delivers sobering subjects like mortality, mental health, spirituality, survival, and finding hope in an exceedingly turbulent & traumatized world on her sophomore album, Ol’ Kentucky Light, out September 16th on Atomic Sound Record Company. Taubman clearly didn’t just stumble upon her muse…

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Bob Rotche, Artist 36:23

11M ago36:23

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https://www.bobrotche.com/Bob Rotche is a Virginia-based wood artist. He has worked with wood in one manner or another for most of his life but it was exposure to the lathe and its ability to create smooth-flowing curves that really captured his imagination. He continues to use the lathe extensively but is now recognized more for his work with carv…

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Page Turner, Art Editor Artemis Journal 28:00

11M ago28:00

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Page Turner, an acclaimed artist, recently showed her art at the "Affiliation Show" at the National Arts Club in New York City. Page has worked with Artemis Journal for three years, and her ability to pair art and poetry is phenomenal! In this interview, Jeri Rogers explores how the layout comes into being with her creative skills. "This year's the…

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Susan Saandholland, Artist 35:25

1y ago35:25

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The arc of Susan's career is amazing. Besides her commitment to Photography, It includes a six-year term as President of the American Kidney Fund. She has been represented in three galleries and continues her desire to be of creative service to artists, dancers, and musicians. Her video skills helped numerous artists worldwide to have virtual shows…

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Susan Hankla, Poet 33:24

1y ago33:24

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Susan Hankla Poet has s long history with Artemis. Back in 1977, as a young writer, Susan's poetry appeared in the very first edition of Artemis Journal. VA. For many years she worked as a traveling poet-in-the-schools working with underserved communities in Virginia, through generous grants from The Virginia Commission on the Arts. This made her l…

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Nikki Giovanni, Poet 39:43

1+ y ago39:43

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From Harlem rooftops to the drumbeats of the Congo, the poems in "The Women and the Men display in full measure the gifts that have made Nikki Giovanni one of the most important, appealing, and broad-reaching American poets: her warmth, her conciseness, her passion, and her wit. As a witness to four generations, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively and …

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Michele Sons & Sam Krisch, Fine Art Photographers 36:02

1+ y ago36:02

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Michele Sons is a landscape and nature photographer, writer, and educator with a focus on the quiet, contemplative imagery of Appalachia. She was recently New River Gorge Creative-in Residence at our nation’s newest national park, which culminated in a solo exhibit of her work and an instructional ebook available for purchase on her website. Michel…

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Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey 29:22

1+ y ago29:22

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When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In his book FINDING ABBY, Sean Prentiss goes on an odyssey looking for Abbey's grav…

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Annie Waldrop, Multi-Media Artist 32:45

1+ y ago32:45

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Annie Waldrop is a multi-media artist living and working in Roanoke, Va. In addition to exhibiting work up and down the east coast, she recently had a major solo exhibition at The Turchin Center at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City and acquired her master's degree at The …

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Betty Branch, Sculptor 34:04

1+ y ago34:04

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Betty Branch is an artist who is constantly reinventing herself. Her media is diverse; She sculpts in wax, clay, fiber, straw, and stone. Throughout her career in intensive production, she has culled visual references from ancient matriarchal civilizations to current cultural events, from Greece to the foothills of the Blue Ridge. Her work is defin…

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Starroot, Visionary Folk Artist 30:01

1+ y ago30:01

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Starroot grew up in Southern Germany and started to create art at an early age, inspired by nature and her unlimited fantasy. She explored and practiced conscious dreaming in her early childhood. She is an entirely self-taught artist. When she was 30 years old, she had a life-changing Out of Body experience in a car accident. Starroot opened more a…

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Bill Glose, author 27:30

2y ago27:30

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Many war books have been written the horrors of combat. All the Ruined Men explores how difficult and confusing it can be afterward to come back home. All the Ruined Men is a book of linked stories that show veterans struggling to adjust to civilian life after years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a combat veteran, and a paratrooper in the 82nd …

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Donnie Secreast, Artemis Literary Editor 29:22

2y ago29:22

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Donnie Secreast is co-editor of Artemis Journal and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literary Studies at Texas A&M University. She grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, originally from Radford, Virginia, with roots in Western North Carolina. Her research interests include the intersections of ecocriticism and humor in Cold War-era women’s writing. Her schola…

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Alessio Zanelli, Italian Poet 24:38

2y ago24:38

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Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who writes in English, a language he has learned completely as an autodidact. His work has appeared in some 200 literary journals from 17 countries including, in the USA: Artemis, California Quarterly, Concho River Review, Italian Americana, The Lyric, North Dakota Quarterly, Philosophy And Literature, Potomac Rev…

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Jane Goette, Author River Road Memoir 24:48

2y ago24:48

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A River Road Memoir is a journey through a young girl’s idyllic childhood in the rural South to her restless adolescence when the Civil Rights struggle becomes urgent and personal to her family. The unfolding story is told through the second daughter’s eyes. Jane is a serious child, the one her father calls, “a tree full of owls,” always thinking, …

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Nikki Giovanni, Poet singing "The Gospal according to Nikki Giovanni" with Jovan Jackson, Saxophonist 31:42

2y ago31:42

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The renowned poet, Nikki Giovanni has a new album “The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni.” In addition to publishing dozens of poetry works, Nikki Giovanni has recorded several spoken word albums over the course of 50 years. But this time, she’s doing something a little different. The new album, a collaboration with saxophonist Javon Jackson, is a…

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Steven Kenny, Artist 28:38

2y ago28:38

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Steven Kenny is a renowned painter who recently moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He was born in Peekskill, New York in 1962 and now resides in Check, VA. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, After studying independently in Rome he gained notoriety as a freelance commercial illustrator, later devoting his full attention to fi…

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Angela Dribben, Poet 35:27

2+ y ago35:27

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Angie Dribben is an Autistic artist and writer. Her debut collection, Everygirl, a finalist for the 2020 Broadkill Review Dogfish Head Prize, was released with Main Street Rag. She was a poetry contributor at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and holds an MFA from Randolph College. She is the current VP of the West Region of Poetry Society of Virginia…

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Beth Macy, Award-winning Author Dopesick 36:50

2+ y ago36:50

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Beth Macy is an award-winning journalist & author of the 2018 New York Times-bestselling book, "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America." She writes about outsiders and underdogs. Her writing has won over a dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. The daughter of a fac…

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Sharon Mirtaheri, Artist 35:26

2+ y ago35:26

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After 30 years as a cosmetologist, Sharon founded the “Angels with Scissors” organization, with 150 hairstylists and 43 hair salons, to enable a hair salon for the homeless at the Roanoke Rescue Mission. The organization’s goal was successful, and they raised the funds to build a hair salon inside the Mission’s Women and Children’s building, where …

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Jack Greer, Author 30:43

2+ y ago30:43

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Jack Greer has been writing for all his adult life. Much of Greer's nonfiction writing has focused on the water, especially on the Chesapeake Bay. He wrote about and got engaged in marine affairs for the University of Maryland Sea Grant College for more than thirty years. His first short story collection is Abraham's Bay & Other Stories (Dryad Pres…

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Donna Polseno and Richard Hensley, Ceramic Artists 32:15

2+ y ago32:15

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Donna Polsenso & Richard Hensley Welcome to our podcast. Today I will be interviewing a dynamic couple who have influenced the world of ceramics for over half a century. Donna Polseno and Richard Hensley met in graduate school and moved to Floyd, Virginia's isolated rural mountain community. Donna is our current cover artist for the 2021 Artemis Jo…

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Cathryn Hankla, Author 33:42

2+ y ago33:42

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Cathryn Hankla is the author of over a dozen books in three genres, the most recent of which is the memoir Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home and poetry collections Galaxies and Great Bear. Two collections are forthcoming from Mercer University Press: Not Xanadu (2022) and Immortal Stuff (2023). After a four-decade teaching career, Cathryn Han…

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Doug Pardue, Pulitzer Prize WInning Journalist "Till Death Do Us Part" 32:30

2+ y ago32:30

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"Till Death Do Us Part" 2015 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service Doug Pardue was the lead reporter on a four-member team at The Post & Courier in Charleston, South Carolina that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service, the Pulitzer's top award, for a 5-part investigative series titled "Till Death Do Us Part." The series e…

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Jeffrey W. Allison, Educator and Director, Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 29:51

3y ago29:51

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Jeffrey W. Allison is the Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Director, Statewide Programs and Exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and played an instrumental role in designing and implementing VMFA on the Road: which was launched in 2018 and has since traveled all over the state bringing art to over 160,000 visitors. Jeffrey was a consu…

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Bill White, Artist & Artemis cover artist 30:12

3y ago30:12

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Bill White Artist Owner and artist, Bill White spent 39 years as a Professor of Painting at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. He has received grants from the Cabell, Mellon & Ford Foundations and in 2012 was honored with the Kendig Individual Artist award. Bill is a member of the Midwest Paint Group and has been a guest artist with the Zeuxis Gall…

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Bill Glose, Warrior Veteran turned Poet 33:56

3y ago33:56

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Uniting his own combat experience with those of other veterans, Bill Glose examines the lasting effects of battle and injuries often invisible to the naked eye. Bill Glose is a former paratrooper and combat veteran. The author of five poetry books and two chapbooks, Glose has been published in The Missouri Review, Rattle, and The Sun, among others.…

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Donna Polseno, Ceramic Artist & Cover artist Artemis 2021 36:38

3y ago36:38

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Donna Polseno is a sculptor and potter living in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Donna will be featured on our next 2021 Artemis cover to be released in June. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and has been honored with 2 NEA Artist Fellowships and a Virginia Museum Artists Grant. Donna has shown her work in major exhibitions…

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Courtney Watson, Fiction & Travel Writer 26:58

3y ago26:58

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Winner of "Women Hold Up Half the Sky" SciFi Contest "Never turn your back on water" by Courtney Watson Partnering with Los Angeles Light Bringer Project, Artemis encourages SciFi short story writing with a strong female leading character. Courtney Watson is a fiction and travel writer who earned her Ph.D. in English from The Center for Writers at …

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Nikki Giovanni, Poet 26:31

3y ago26:31

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Artemis is pleased to have acclaimed poet, Nikki Giovanni to join our publication. She has been awarded an unprecedented 7 NAACP Image Awards, nominated for a Grammy; has been a finalist for the National Book Award, authored 3 New York Times and Los Angeles Times Best Sellers, which is highly unusual for a poet. She is a Distinguished Professor at …

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Jordan Harman, Musician 30:17

3+ y ago30:17

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A natural blend of Music and Poetry In this podcast, Host, Jeri Rogers will be speaking with a composer, musician, whose music, Slow Down is our Podcast theme song. Jordan Harman creates music with soul that retains a unique style pulling you in before you know it, you are dancing and singing along to his unique brand of music. His vocals are smoot…

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Justin Scribner, Writer 29:21

3+ y ago29:21

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This past fall, Justin published his first collection of poetry and short stories, every grain of sand, expanding his artistic reach from his currently-paused career as a stage manager on Broadway. We talk to Justin about turning this corner and sharing his process on multiple platforms: an eight-part blog, Instagram readings, and a YouTube book la…

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Dr. Molly O'Dell, Doctor and Poet 26:04

3+ y ago26:04

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Dr. Molly O'Dell, Doctor and poet After an incredible career practicing medicine and public health, Molly decided to retire from full time work in 2016. The change was wonderful and she quickly adjusted to what it means not to hurry. When SARS CoV-2 introduced itself to our planet, Dr. O'Dell re-joined the Virginia Department of Health work force t…

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Jack Greer and Robert Bersson, Editors of "Better with Age" 32:18

3+ y ago32:18

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Robert Bersson and Jack Greer are the editors of the new book Better with Age: Creativity, Discovery & Surprise, a compilation of essays and reflections about experiences with aging. Bersson is an emeritus professor at James Madison University and Greer worked for many years at the University of Maryland's Sea Grant College. A lively collection of …

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Ayn Cates Sullivan, Mystical Author 27:46

3+ y ago27:46

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Ayn Cates Sullivan, MA, MFA, Ph.D. is an award-winning, best-selling mystical author. Weaving ancient wisdom traditions together with mystical experience, Dr Sullivan focuses on mythology, folklore and envisioning a new humanity. Her books include an award-winning children’s series including Sparkle & the Gift, Sparkle & the Light and the Sparkle F…

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Remembering Frances Barnhart, Poet 6:03

3+ y ago6:03

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Letter from Jeri Rogers, Editor, Artemis http://www.artemisjournal.org As 2020 comes to a close, I want to remember a poet and dear friend of Artemis who passed. Frances Curtis Barnhart was known and loved by many in the Artemis Community. In years past, we published both her art and poems. Now, we will miss her radiant smile, everlasting optimism,…

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Louis Gallo, Poet 34:13

3+ y ago34:13

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Professor Gallo's teaching interests include creative writing and modern and contemporary literature. Four volumes of Louis Gallo’s poetry, Archaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash and Clearing the Attic, are now available. Two forthcoming volumes, Why is there Something Rather than Nothing? and Leeway & Advent, will be published in the near future. His…

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Silvie Granatelli, Ceramic Potter 26:02

3+ y ago26:02

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Silvie is a working studio potter living in Floyd, Virginia. Her work is in the Collections of: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA. She provides an active mentorship for young potters, teaches and is an avid collector of…

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Luisa A. Igloria, Virginia Poet Laureate 26:39

3+ y ago26:39

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Governor Ralph Northam recently appointed Luisa A. Igloria as the 20th Poet Laureate of Virginia, with a two year term. Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, she is the author of 14 books of poetry and 4 chapbooks. Luisa has four daughters and now makes her home in Virginia with most of her family. She is a Professor of Creative Writing a…

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Page and Zephren Turner, Art/Layout Editor Artemis Journal 36:20

3+ y ago36:20

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Join the conversation with Zephren and Page Turner, Artemis Art and Layout Editors on the process of creating a literary and art journal. Get to know the Turners who share in the creative process of layout for Artemis Journal. Topics range from Sacred Geometry, art/ poetry to mushroom hunting. Hosted by Jeri Rogers, Artemis Editor Co-Producer - Ski…

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Remembering artist, Dorothy Gillespie with Gary Isreal 29:08

3+ y ago29:08

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BACK IN 1977 I WAS INTRODUCED TO DOROTHY GILLESPIE, an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. SHE supported our fledgling idea of starting a feminist literary and art journal by donating A beautiful pastel for our very first cover in 1977. Her work of art was later painted to become Roano…

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Ron Smith, Virginia Poet Laureate 37:04

3+ y ago37:04

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As Poet Laureate of Virginia 2014-2016, Ron Smith has authored several books of poetry. Running Again in Hollywood Cementry appeared this year from MadHat Press. Ron’s other books are Moon Road, Its Ghostly Workshop, and The Humility of the Brutes. Artemis Journal has published Ron's work for 3 years and he was our featured writer for our Artemis J…

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