{"id":13714,"date":"2020-10-02T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/thea-matthews\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T02:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T02:23:42","slug":"thea-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/thea-matthews\/","title":{"rendered":"Thea Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797-225x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797-225x300-1.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797-315x420.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamatthews.com\/\">Thea Matthews<\/a> is a Brooklyn-based poet, activist, and educator of Afro-Indigenous Mexican heritage.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Thea is the author of<i class=\"\"> Unearth [The Flowers]<\/i> (Red Light Lit, 2020).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Her work has appeared in <i class=\"\">The Rumpus<\/i>,<i class=\"\"> Atlanta Review<\/i>, <i class=\"\">The New Republic,&nbsp;<\/i>and others. Currently, she is an MFA Poetry candidate at New York University and editor of <i class=\"\">For Women Who Roar<\/i> magazine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Links to purchase the book and have more info, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/unearth-the-flowers\/9780999889510\">click here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/therumpus.net\/topics\/unearth-the-flowers\/\">also here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The following printed poem was read during this interview.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10694\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.1-1.png 673w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.1-158x300-1.png 158w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.1-538x1024-1.png 538w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.1-221x420.png 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10695\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.2-1.png 612w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.2-233x300-1.png 233w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Angels-Trumpet-p.2-326x420.png 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10693\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509-1.jpeg 481w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509-229x300-1.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509-320x420.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thea Matthews is a Brooklyn-based poet, activist, and educator of Afro-Indigenous Mexican heritage. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Thea is the author of Unearth [The Flowers] (Red Light Lit, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Atlanta Review, The New Republic,&nbsp;and others. Currently, she is an MFA Poetry candidate at New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13734,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions\/13734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}