This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThis poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThere is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAOne of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThat was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAOne of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
ADRIAN MATEJKAYou should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
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 MATEJKABecause before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI 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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