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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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 just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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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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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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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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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