Words and Music Episode 3: Adrian Matejka

(This is an archived episode from 10/25/2021)In the third installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, we learn about two new books linked to music from poet Adrian Matejka. This program is made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities.Matejka, who lives in Indianapolis, teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and grew up in Germany, California, and in Indiana. He has two new books featuring his poetry just out. The first, published by Penguin, is called Somebody Else Sold the World. The other is really two smaller books in one in which Adrian and two visual artists friends collaborated in response to the music of Funkadelic in images and poems. Third Man Books is the publisher.Adrian also has four earlier collections of poems published and is the former Poet Laureate of Indiana.This episode is divided into two parts. In the first, Adrian introduces his story and talks a bit about his process. The second is a conversation between Adrian and host, Jim Walker.