That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKABigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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Bones 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
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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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 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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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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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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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