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.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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 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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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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 a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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