I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
ADRIAN MATEJKABigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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 things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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