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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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.
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 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 MATEJKABy that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
ADRIAN MATEJKAYou should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI 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.
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 MATEJKAIt made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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 MATEJKAThat was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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 MATEJKABut it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThey are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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