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Nov 202005

Live At Five

Running Time: 16 min:
Director: Averie Storck
Cast: Dylan Baker, Katie Finneran, Annie Golden, Bill Buell

Description: Bob (Dylan Baker) is a frustrated writer. His life is turned upside down when he wanders into the absurd and wonderful world of Stacy Sedwig (Katie Finneran), a small-town news anchorwoman who looks at life as one, giant newscast.

Big Night

Directed by: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
Screenwriter; Ken Kelsch
Cinematographer Andrew Jackness

Cast: Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver

During the 1950s, two immigrant Italian brothers, Primo and Secondo are trying to face the difficulties of running a restaurant. Primo is a master chef who serves culinary delights every night. The only problem is that frequently there is no one to serve food to.

Mostly Martha

Director & Screenplay by Sandra Nettlebeck
Director of Photography: Michael Bertl
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellito, Maxime Foerste

Martha is the consumate successful single woman, a celebrated chef at a ritzy Hamburg restaurant. Work aside, the rest of her life is a rather routine affair, with passion firmly channelled into her culinary creations. Everything changes, however, when her single parent sister dies in an accident and Martha has to take in her eight year old niece

Like Water for Chocolate

Director & Producer: Alfonso Arau

The story revolves around the illegitimate child Tita, the youngest of three sisters who because of family tradition must stay unmarried so that she may care for her mother. She is content with this role until she meets the love of her life, Pedro.

Kathleen Grissom

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Nov 172005

November 17, 2005 Kathleen Grissom was born and educated in Saskatchewan, Canada. Soon after, she left to live and work, first in Montreal, then in Manhattan, but it wasn’t until she moved with her husband to a farm in rural Virginia that she finally found her home. There, while restoring an old plantation tavern, operating an herb farm, running a tearoom and raising Cashmere goats, she began to write a narrative of her past and present life.

In the years to follow, the memoir was interrupted when, while researching the history of her antebellum home, she discovered a notation on an old map. It read: Negro Hill. Unable to determine the story of its origin, local historians suggested that it most likely represented a tragedy. To this day Kathleen is uncertain why the notation captured her so, but fascinated, she gradually set aside everything else to pursue the research and writing of a story that insisted it be told. Kathleen is presently completing her memoir while continuing on with research for her next work of fiction, based on the true life of Crow Mary.

http://www.kathleengrissom.com/

Brenda E. Sartoris

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Nov 172005

November 17, 2005 Brenda E. Sartoris grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, graduating from Millsaps College with a BA in English in 1962. She went on to graduate school at Louisiana State University, and after receiving a PhD degree in medieval British literature, taught a variety of English courses at Mississippi State University for 20 years. When her husband was relocated to Lynchburg, Virginia, in 2001, she retired from her position as Manager of Technical Information Services with Lockheed-Martin, and began to write full time. In 2003-2004, she lived in Paris, France, where she began her first novel and became a “regular” at the Monday night poetry readings at Shakespeare and Company. She has published some of her poetry in various “little” magazines over the years, and has also published travel articles in the Baltimore Sun newspaper. She continues to write both poetry and fiction and lives in Paris 3 or 4 months each year

Pivot Points

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Oct 232005

October 23-December 11, 2005

A group show by three generations of painters and poets in an exhibition about painting and poetry, teaching and mentoring. Pivot Points addresses the issue of influence across creative practice. It reveals interconnections of references and resemblances and echoes of style and context across generations. Each painting or poem is a unique work of an individual artist or writer, but is also part of an on-going story of teachers teaching students and students teaching teachers.

Pivot Points is above all, a beautiful show by three talented artists and poets – Victor Kord, Richard Lazzarro, Reni Gower, Sally Bowring, Beth Weisgerber, and Valerie Bogdan (painters) Larry Levis, Dave Smith, Greg Donovan, Elizabeth Morgan, Joshua Poteat and Laura-Gray Street (poets).

Gregory Donovan

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Oct 202005

October 20, 2005 Gregory Donovan a senior editor of Blackbird, is one of the founding faculty members of the MFA in Creative Writing program at VCU, where he has taught for twenty years. He has won the Robert Penn Warren Award, as well as grants from the VCA and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation and the VCCA. Donovan’s poetry collection, Calling His Children Home, was the 1993 Devins Award winner. His work has appeared in numerous journals. His poetry has been anthologized, most recently in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (UVa, 2003). Donovan is the writer-in-residence for the VCU Glasgow Artists and Writers Workshop.

Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

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Oct 202005

Elizabeth Seydel Morgan is the author of four books of poetry: Language, a limited edition with prints by artist Laura Pharis, and three collections from Louisiana State University Press: Parties (1988 and recently released in a new edition), The Governor of Desire (1993), and On Long Mountain (1998), a finalist for the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize; a fifth collection, Without a Philosophy, is forthcoming from LSU. She has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She taught literature and creative writing at St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, Virginia, and has also been an adjunct professor of poetry at University of Richmond, Visiting Professor at Washington and Lee University, and Writer-in-Residence at RMWC. Morgan received her MFA from VCU.

Joshua Poteat

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Oct 092005

October 20, 2005 Joshua Poteat was named the winner of the 2004 Anhinga Press Poetry Prize and also won the National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America (judged by Mary Oliver), as well as awards from American Literary Review, Nebraska Review, Marlboro Review, Columbia, Bellingham Review, Yemassee, Lullwater Review, and Universities West Press. He has been the Summer Writer-in-Residence at the University of Arizona ‘s Poetry Center and was awarded an Individual Artist’s Grant from the VCA, as well as fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Catskill Writing Workshop.

Laura-Gray Street

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Oct 082005

October 8, 2005 Laura-Gray Street has received a poetry fellowship from the VCA and the Dana Award in Poetry. Her poems have been published in Shenandoah, Meridian, the Notre Dame Review, the Yalobusha Review, New Virginia Review, and Blackbird, among other venues. She was commissioned in 1999 to write a libretto for the New York Festival of Song. Street is assistant professor of English at RMWC. She holds a BA from Hollins University, an MA from the UVa, and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.

http://web.randolphcollege.edu/doc/scholarship_detail.asp?id=239

George Ellenbogen

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Sep 152005

September 15, 2005 George Ellenbogen is the author of Winterfischer (Munich, Edition Kappa, 2002), The Rhino Gate Poems (Vehicule Press, 1996), Portes Aux Rhones Et Autres Poemes (l’Harmatton, 1997), Winter Fishher (Edition Kappa, 2002), Along The Road From Eden (Vehicule Press, 1989), The Night Unstones (Identity Press, 1971), and Winds Of Unreason (Contact Press, 1957). His poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Partisan Review, Matrix, Encore, Kansas Quarterly, Epos, Boulevard, New Boston Review, and Nantucket Review as well as several anthologies. He is the subject of a documentary film, George Ellenbogen: Canadian Poet in America. Ellenbogen is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Forum at Bentley College, MA.

Carole Burns

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Sep 152005

September 15, 2005 Carole Burns is the host of “Off the Page” on washingtonpost.com. Her fiction has been published in literary journals and magazines such as Other Voices and Washingtonian, and her nonfiction has been published in the Washington Post and the New York Times. Awards include an Artist Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Mary Roberts Rinehart National Award in Fiction, and she has been a fellow at The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.