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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. There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/i-was-fortunate-enough-to-get-a-job-at-my-alma-mater-which-brought-me/)

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## More by Adrian Matejka

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/you-should-check-out-william-shatner-s-album-the-transformed-man-it/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/i-was-fortunate-enough-to-get-a-job-at-my-alma-mater-which-brought-me/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/i-learned-a-new-language-for-it-all-in-the-90s-which-in-some-ways-isn/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/i-was-always-casting-about-for-role-models-as-a-kid-and-the-star-trek/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/that-was-one-of-things-that-surprised-me-so-much-when-i-was-writing/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/she-put-two-fingered-guns-to-her-temples-when-she-saw-us-red-patch-of/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/bigotry-doesn-t-care-about-state-or-regional-lines-it-s-all-over-the/)

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> [The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/the-day-after-the-president-trump-election-i-remember-feeling-like-it/)

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> [One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/one-of-the-hardest-things-for-me-to-do-is-be-fully-open-in-a-poem-by/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/one-of-the-things-i-took-from-the-show-was-emotional-possibility-i/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/the-1990s-were-also-when-a-bunch-of-the-soft-shoe-language-for-race/)

[Adrian Matejka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-matejka/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-matejka/i-visited-the-museum-of-modern-art-last-spring-and-spent-time-with/)

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