Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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So 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.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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 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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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