I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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 was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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