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 49 years old and has evolved to be an all inclusive yearly journal with essays, poetry and art.
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 62
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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 …
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 P…
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 ou…
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 Amer…
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 A…
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…
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…
Bill Glose, author
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 t…
Donnie Secreast, Artemis Literary Editor
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 …
Alessio Zanelli, Italian Poet
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 th…
Jane Goette, Author River Road Memoir
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 …
Nikki Giovanni, Poet singing "The Gospal according to Nikki Giovanni" with Jovan Jackson, Saxophonist
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 ov…
Steven Kenny, Artist
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 Sc…
Angela Dribben, Poet
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 contr…
Beth Macy, Award-winning Author Dopesick
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 …
Jack Greer, Author
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…
Sharon Mirtaheri, Artist
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 Mis…
Donna Polseno and Richard Hensley, Ceramic Artists
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 Hens…
Cathryn Hankla, Author
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 …
Doug Pardue, Pulitzer Prize WInning Journalist "Till Death Do Us Part"
"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 P…