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.
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.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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