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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.

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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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 will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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 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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