It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAEcho of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn’t fun to write, even though the poems aren’t 100% autobiographical.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
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