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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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 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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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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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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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