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 …

- 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 way.

- Adrian Matejka

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 myse…

- 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 what language actually means bef…

- 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 th…

- 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. There is no way I would hav…

- 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 spun out by th…

- Adrian Matejka

The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't…

- 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 in poems from watching Sta…

- Adrian Matejka