Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
ADRIAN MATEJKABecause before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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