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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like Can you read at this thing? And I say, Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York.
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My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
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I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.
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I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.
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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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