By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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 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 mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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 was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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