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 MATEJKAOne of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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 just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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