I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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 was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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