That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThat was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
ADRIAN MATEJKABigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAYou should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
ADRIAN MATEJKABones 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
ADRIAN MATEJKAI was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
ADRIAN MATEJKAOne of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
ADRIAN MATEJKABecause before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
ADRIAN MATEJKAOne of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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