Digital art has become my stop-and-go bodega. Whenever possible, I prefer to collaborate with illustrators, talented artists who do this fulltime. However, nowadays, a poet is forced to multi-task, asked to read a poem on camera or via an MP3 file -- and sometimes provide an illustration overnight. 

Additionally, if you have a You Tube channel that features your writing (as I do), where's the visual art going to come from?
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Thus a deadline and a demand are the stringent parents of artistic invention.

As to live models, I enjoy having yet another reason to stare at my pure-bred Siamese cats, descended from a long line of temple guardians in ancient Siam.

Cats demand to be examined, worshipped, and immortalized. 
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Creating cats on paper permits me to share their ineffable beauty with others.

Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, a Pushcart Prize, Rhysling Award, Best of the Net, and Dwarf Stars nominee, is a member of SFPA, The British Fantasy Society, and The Dramatists Guild. She's Poetry SuperHighway's "Poet of the Week" [Sept. 12 - 18, 2022]. Elgin Award winner "A Route Obscure and Lonely," "Concupiscent Consumption," "Women Who Were Warned," and "Messengers of the Macabre" [co-written with David Davies], nominated for CLMP's Firecracker Award,  are her latest poetry titles.
Forthcoming: "Apprenticed to the Night" [UK: Beacon Books, 2023]. 
            ― ― links ― ― 
Twitter: @Mae_Westside 
https://linktr.ee/LindaAnn.LoSchiavo 
LindaAnn Literary: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg
    https://messengersofthemacabre.com/
    Book Trailer MotM: "Messengers of the Macabre" -- https://youtu.be/dQJA4_d_EsU 
Book Trailer WWWW: "Women Who Were Warned" -- https://youtu.be/Ga9QXeQVPnE

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