You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
ADRIAN MATEJKAYou should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
ADRIAN MATEJKABecause before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThat was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThey are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
ADRIAN MATEJKABy that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI 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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAEcho of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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