Mark Blickley and Frie J. Jacobs, Real Realism: An Art Manifesto for the Disenchanted

Mark Blickley is the author of Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press). He recently published the text-based art chapbook, Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground (Moria Books, Chicago), which the publisher sent to the White House and members of Congress. Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center.

Frie J. Jacobs is a Belgian visual artist, poet and composer. His credits include exhibiting at the International Art Festival Watou in Belgium, and the Brussels International Underground Poetry Festival at WIELS (one of the leading institutions for contemporary art in Europe). Earlier this year a book about his career as an artist, a lesser life, was published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition.