Artemis Speaks

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 art. 

"Making pottery for me is about giving and receiving simultaneously.   It is about hospitality.  I would like my pottery to embody my unspoken assumptions about our heritage and culture.  How and what we eat is one of the means by which society creates itself, and acts out its aims and functions.  By thinking about food as identity, as sex, as power, as friendship, as a means of magic and witchcraft, and as our time controller, I see food as the root of culture: that which gives meaning to our lives.  As a potter, I hope my pots will shape and dramatize the rituals surrounding food and allow me, the potter, to partake actively in the lives of those who enjoy my work." Silvie Granatelli

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 and English, and from 2009-2015 was Director of the MFA Creative Writing at Old Dominion University.  In the Spring Term 2018, she was the inaugural Glasgow Visiting Writer in Residence at Washington & Lee University. Her work has appeared or been accepted in numerous anthologies and journals, and has won various national and international literary awards which includes the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition Award for her Poetry book, Maps for Migrants and Ghosts  http://www.siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-3792-7

For more information, Go to Luisa's website https://www.luisaigloria.com/

Hosted by Jeri Rogers, Artemis Editor
Co-Producer - Skip Brown
Recorded at Final Track Studio

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 - Skip Brown
Recorded at Final Track Studio

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 Roanoke’s first downtown mural.

Dorothy created quite a sensation bakc then and now fast forward to this year...we decided to go full circle and honor her on our current Artemis Journal, since this year she would have been 100 years old. We collaborated with the Roanoke Taubman museum of Art, since they were featuring her with a retrospective of her life's work. 

As a native of Roanoke, Ms. Gillespie’s international career spanned seven decades and her works of art have graced many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public places. We are honored again to have her grace our current cover.

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 Journal 2016.

Smith has taught poetry and poetry writing at three universities; but he always returns to the institution that first won his heart for its inspiring atmosphere and rigorous standards, St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, Virginia. Ron is the first-ever Writer-in-Residence at the school and also holds its George O. Squires Chair of Distinguished Teaching.
 
His poems & essays have appeared in many periodicals, including The Nation, Kenyon Review, both nationally and internationally, from London to Italy. He has also reviewed more than 100 books, mostly poetry, for the  The Richmond Times-Dispatch. 

 
Ron Smith has been a presenter at many international conferences and has given readings of his work in the US, Canada, Ireland, England, France and Italy. A highlight was attending a gathering of Hemingway scholars, celebrating poems about that author and other modernists on the Eiffel Tower in Paris France.

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda ​served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2006-2008.​ She is the recipient of a Council for Basic Education Fellowship, three Artist-in-Education grants and an Arts-on-the-Road grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and has won the Ellen Anderson Award, a Virginia Cultural Laureate Award. Her poems, along with those of other Virginia poets laureate, are featured in two art installations at the McLean Metro Station in Northern Virginia. An abstract artist, Dr. Kreiter-Foronda’s paintings and sculpture have been exhibited widely throughout the state of Virginia.

Jeanne Larsen is a poet, translator, novelist essayist, and sometimes short fiction writer. Jeanne has a long history/herstory with Artemis Journal, starting in the 1980's while teaching at Hollins University. She has been published in Artemis Journal 14 times up to the present Artemis Journal 2020 which features her poem Discernment at Roaring Run. Her latest book What Penelope Chooses is her 9th book. http://www.jeannelarsen.com

Our first podcast will feature the acclaimed poet,
Nikki Giovanni

In this podcast, Jeri Rogers, Editor of Artemis interviews Ms. Giovanni. Nikki's poem "Vote" opens up the 2020 Artemis. She explains why she wrote this poem on this memorable date celebrating the 19th Amendment which was officially adopted on August 26, 1920: the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage.

By making this a more beautiful world, Artemis Speaks invites you to join our podcast twice a month where we interview writers and artists who have been published in the Artemis Journal. Our first kickoff podcast will feature acclaimed poet, Nikki Giovanni reading her poetry and musing about her life in these challenging times.