Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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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 hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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.
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.
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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.
ADRIAN MATEJKASo 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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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
ADRIAN MATEJKABy that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt’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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThere is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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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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