Tuesday, July 27, 2021
"The first time I wrote a poem was in March 1994. I remember it so vividly because I was in Bloomington, Indiana walking across a field near campus. I was listening to Miles Davis’s version of “Footprints” and for just a moment, I thought I understood his language of trumpets. I got my notebook out and wrote a draft of a poem called “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” that ended up in my first book 9 years later. That’s one of the beautiful things about first books (and all books, really). They hold so many revelatory walks, open fields, and realizations even though others might not recognize them." — Adrian Matejka, Read the Q&A here