I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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Echo 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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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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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 was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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