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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’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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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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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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.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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