I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThis 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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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