Interview

Interview with Karissa Chen

Interview with Karissa Chen

"...all artists should push themselves outside of their known world, and familiarize themselves with someone else’s reality, be it in a different country or a different community closer to home. After all, all worlds, even imagined ones, will be most reflective of life if it contains multitudes.

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Interview with Vida Cross

Interview with Vida Cross

After last week's debut of poet Vida Cross's book, BRONZEVILLE AT NIGHT: 1949, Liz Blood chatted with Cross about the influences on her work including painter Archibald J. Motley, writer Langston Hughes, and living in Chicago. They discussed bringing writing, music, and painting together, different manifestations of segregation, and the blend of fiction and nonfiction in Cross's poetry.

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