It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
ADRIAN MATEJKAOne of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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 learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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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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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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