But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKABecause before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
ADRIAN MATEJKABigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThere is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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 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 mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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 fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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 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 MATEJKAI wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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 MATEJKAOne of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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