By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
ADRIAN MATEJKABones 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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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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 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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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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