{"id":5250,"date":"2020-10-01T21:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:33:40","slug":"thea-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/thea-matthews\/","title":{"rendered":"Thea Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10692 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797-1.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797-2.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7797-3.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><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 loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10693\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509-1.jpeg 481w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509-2.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0509-3.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/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,\u00a0and others. Currently, she is an MFA Poetry candidate at New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5260,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}