WITH EVERY BREATH (5:00 MIN) is a short documentary about African-American poet Lamont B. Steptoe, who is a long time resident of Philadelphia and Vietnam War Veteran. Steptoe, an American Book Award winner, deals with the many aspects of his life through his poetry from post-traumatic syndrome resulting from the war to his life as a gay man of color. This short poetic film encapsulates a compelling literary figure and his thirty-year life in Philadelphia. Premiered on WYBE's Philadelphia Stories. Produced, edited and directed by Ram Devineni and Rattapallax Films.

LAMONT B. STEPTOE is a poet, photographer, journalist, and activist based in Philadelphia. His collection of poems, A Long Movie of Shadows, was awarded a 2005 American Book Award. Lamont is the founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. He was a Combat Army Sergeant in Vietnam and was decorated with the Bronze Star. Lamont has won the 1999 Literary Fellow for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2002 Kuntu Writers Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from founders Rob Penny and August Wilson, and was a Discipline Winner in the Literature Category of the Pen Fellowship Program in Philadelphia. His other books of poetry include Mad Minute, Crimson River, and Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare. His work has been anthologized in Life on the Line: Poems of Healing, Brother to Brother, In Search of Color Everywhere, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, among others.