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Cinemadamare!!
A traveling filmmaking campus that, week by week all through the summer, makes its way through small towns and cities throughout Italy, splitting up into groups and making short films in competition! Leggett has applied! They also have a "Main Competition" festival -- To Fondle Nothing is in contention! They asked for a short, introductory cell phone video, and have posted them on Instagram and Facebook:
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CcvPGjXNhv6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Actor
Member, Actors Equity Association
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SAG/AFTRA, Dues-Paying Non-Member
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Representation: Topo Swope Talent: (206) 443-2021
Poet
Interior of a Cork City bookstore (Leggett)
3-time Pushcart Prize Nominee
Publications in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India and Nigeria
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
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Subjectiv Journal, a Pacific Northwest publication, Fall 2021, "An Evening's Unpacking," a reprint of a sonnet originally published in Soul Fountain (Queens Village, NYC), set in a duplex building built in the early 20th century in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood that has since been razed and replaced by a townhouse.
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Firewords Quarterly (Scotland)
In their forthcoming Issue 15, "Thomas Street Park: October" will be published soon.
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Author's Journal of Inventive Literature, "Issue Three: Life of Books," Vulgaris Media, October 2021. "Sapphics for One's Win at a High School Speech Meet / Scrawled on Paper Propped on a Book of Ponge Verse / During One's First Visit to U.C. Berkeley / Since It All Happened"; "Generals"; "Yiimimagaliso: The Mysteries"; "Bards"
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Welter (University of Baltimore), the Welter 55 Contest: to celebrate its 55th year, the magazine is publishing 55 pieces of exactly 55 words each, over the span of a year. Among them was Charles's limerick sequence, "To a Woman Whose Online Dating Profile Admonishes, 'I am an expert at being single. I do it well.'"
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The Hollins Critic (Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia), "If You'd Been Born"
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Charles Leggett's poetry short, To Fondle Nothing, is an Official Selection in 16 film festivals in the U.S. (New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Colorado), the U.K., France, Portugal, Italy, Serbia, Turkey, and Sweden. It has won awards in four monthly/bimonthly festivals, as well as reaching final and semi-finals rounds. In mid-October, Charles traveled to Milford, PA, for the film's North American premiere at the Black Bear Film Festival, and a month later, visited beautiful Belgrade, Serbia, for the film's European premiere at MikroFAF -- International DIY and Indie Short Film Festival.
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To see more of Charles's work with video poetry, check out his YouTube channel:
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