I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThis poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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 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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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