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.
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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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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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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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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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