Anne Spencer Revisited: A Film by Keith Lee (DVD) + Companion Book

Film

This 23-minute DVD presents twelve vignettes depicting dramatized readings of poems by Anne Spencer, who is portrayed by Sonia Langhorne, with a short introduction by Keith Lee. The film was shot by Phil Spinner in the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum and includes still photographs by Susan Saandholland. Keith Lee, a choreographer, filmmaker, and former American Ballet Theatre soloist, founded the Dance Theatre of Lynchburg in 1999.

(Dance Theatre of Lynchburg, 2008)

Companion Book

This 48-page hardbound book includes 20 poems by Anne Spencer, illustrated with Susan Saandholland's lovely color photographs of the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum. The book includes notes on Anne Spencer's life, her house and garden, the composition of the poems, and the making of Keith Lee's film.

Susan Saandholland is a freelance photographer with a studio at Riverviews Artspace in Lynchburg. Beth Packert is a retired lawyer and poetry specialist who teaches English courses at Lynchburg College.

Poems by Anne Spencer, edited and with notes by Beth Packert; illustrated with photographs by Susan Saandholland (Lynchburg, VA: Blackwell Press, 2008)