One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThat was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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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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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 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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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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