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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt’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.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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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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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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