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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.

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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 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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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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