It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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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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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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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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 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.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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