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 the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think. — 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
