I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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 Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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