"...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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"It feels easier now, more appealing, to check out of reality for a minute and throw every shred of my energy and focus onto a project."
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Liz Blood recently chatted with our next author, Micheline Aharonian Marcom.
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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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