Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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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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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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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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