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 MATEJKABut it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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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 contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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Bones 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
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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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