Artemis Speaks
By making the world a more beautiful place, Artemis Speaks interviews writers and artists from the Appalachian Region of the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond. This is a time we need to write and make art for the sake of healing our souls and enriching our communities. This podcast is a production of the Artemis Journal, a charitable organization now 43 years old and has evolved to be an all inclusive yearly journal with essays, poetry and art.
Episodes
60 episodes
Ann Goette, Writer, Poet, Playwright
Today’s guest is Ann Goethe, a prolific writer known for her poetry, novels, musicals and plays, including operas. She is a recipient of The Virginia Arts & Humanities Prize and has served as a Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference....
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Season 5
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Episode 51
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27:34
Elani Spencer, Youth Poet Laureate,Artemis
Elani Spencer is a 19-year-old poet based in Roanoke, Virginia. She was born and raised in Rochester, NY, and currently attends Hollins University where she is pursuing a bachelors of art in Creative Writing and a minor in Business. She is Roan...
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Season 5
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Episode 50
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31:41
Exploring the world of AI
Exploring the world of AI Host Jeri Rogers Editor Artemis Journal As a publisher of poetry and art journals, I find the AI revolution compelling. This groundbreaking technology is ushering...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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51:45
Ron Smith , Virginia Poet Laureate
Smith serves as a Consultant in Poetry and Prose at St. Christopher's School and Poetry Editor at Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. His poems have appeared in Artemis for nine years since 2016, when he was our guest po...
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Season 4
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Episode 58
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34:51
Jeri Rogers & Skip Brown, Co-producers Artemis Speaks Podcast
Join co-producers of our Podcast, Jeri Rogers and Skip Brown, as they reflect on four years of podcasting interviews with artists and writers published in the Artemis Journal.Getting ready to launch the next edition of Artemis J...
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Season 4
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Episode 57
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32:32
Ana Morales, Artist
Ana Morales is based in Roanoke, Virginia, and works primarily with mixed media. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from James Madison University, where she studied studio art and art education. She works...
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Season 4
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Episode 56
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33:09
Dorothy Gillespie: Groundbreaking Documentary - COURAGE, INDEPENDENCE AND COLOR
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 docum...
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Season 4
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Episode 55
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24:21
Jim Minick, Poet
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 publication...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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34:25
Sarah EK Muse, Award-winning Artist, Jewelry Designer, & Goldsmith
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. S...
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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38:49
Michele Evans, Poet and Teacher
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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22:02
Linda Atkinson, artist
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 C...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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33:31
A.J. Gnuse, Artemis Journal Literary Editor and Writer Girl in the Walls
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, a...
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Season 3
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Episode 49
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35:12
Javon Jackson, Jazz Saxophonist collaborating with acclaimed Poet, Nikki Giovanni
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 48
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37:40
Dr. Sandee McGlaun, Poet, Reading by Skip Brown
River Sequence (a Meditation)1. RiffleThis 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? Ho...
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Season 33
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Episode 47
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3:28
Lara Taubman, Songwriter
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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34:19
Bob Rotche, Artist
https://www.bobrotche.com/Bob Rotche is a Virginia-based wood artist. He has worked with wood in one manner oranother for most of his life but it was exposure to the lathe and its ability to create s...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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36:23
Page Turner, Art Editor Artemis Journal
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 ...
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Episode 44
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28:00
Susan Saandholland, Artist
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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35:25
Susan Hankla, Poet
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 w...
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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33:24
Nikki Giovanni, Poet
Update: 12/10/24 The Artemis community shares the deep sorrow of losing our cherished poet, Nikki Giovanni. She passed on the evening of Dec. 9, 2024. For ten years, she served as our Distinguished Poet on the Board, and her contributions w...
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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39:43
Michele Sons & Sam Krisch, Fine Art Photographers
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, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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36:02
Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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29:22
Annie Waldrop, Multi-Media Artist
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 C...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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32:45
Betty Branch, Sculptor
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 matria...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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34:04
Starroot, Visionary Folk Artist
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 s...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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30:01