It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThey are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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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 was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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