One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis.… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to think about… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“She put two-fingered guns to her temples when she saw us: red patch of smoker’s skin around her mouth like a raw sun rising.” — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).' I got… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
