{"id":10680,"date":"2020-10-01T21:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2020-10-05T21:57:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T01:57:34","slug":"thea-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/thea-matthews\/","title":{"rendered":"Thea Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_673\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10680-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/TheaMatthews.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/TheaMatthews.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/TheaMatthews.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797.jpeg?resize=315%2C420&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797.jpeg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 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,\u00a0<\/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><\/div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10693\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509.jpeg?resize=481%2C631&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509.jpeg?w=481&amp;ssl=1 481w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509.jpeg?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509.jpeg?resize=320%2C420&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/TheaMatthews.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797.jpeg?fit=480%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-2Mg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10701,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions\/10701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}