Seattle’s fourth youth poet laureate Azura Tyabji is working on publishing a book. For this episode, fields chatted with 18-year-old Azura about her experience at an experimental high school, the reputation of spoken word among poets, and why it’s important to have a youth-specific poet laureate in the first place.
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For Art in Conversation’s third episode, fields spoke with two members of Seaside Tryst, a Seattle band that describes itself as super synthy "trans ass new wave" with a knack for aggressively danceable songs. Here, Seaside Tryst discusses what attracted them to Seattle's music scene and what diversity looks like within it.
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Laura van den Berg is the author of two collections of short stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009) and The Isle of Youth (FSG, 2013), as well as two novels, Find Me (FSG, 2015) and The Third Hotel (FSG, 2018). We spoke to van den Berg about her process of writing The Third Hotel, the unique lens that horror offers as a genre, and the way fiction allows access to hidden layers of the self.
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Bitchcraft is a variety show hosted by the comedic powerhouse Selena Coppock and Lauren Maul in New York City. Here, the founders of the show share some of their favorite things, which includes the radio show Sophisticated Boom Boom, Kacey Musgraves’s newest album, and Grease 2.
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Writer Vyasar Ganesan is currently working on a project about Indian food in America, which he wrote about in his graduate thesis “Indian Food in America: The 6 Essentials.” He is based in Austin, Texas.
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With Seattle’s annual Short Run convention just around the corner — an underground comics and art festival — it seems fitting to chat with an illustrator who’ll be boothing at the event this year: Myra Lara. While she’s long been interested in comics, she’s especially focused her energy on it in recent years, getting published in various comics publications in the city (like Thick as Thieves) and an Ignatz-nominated anthology, La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes.
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Bates is known for her poetry comics, an emerging hybrid genre which applies the lyric sensibility of poetry to hand-drawn images. Fields talks to Bates in episode one of Art in Conversation, a new podcast hosted by Manola Secaira.
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This week in “things we like,” essayist and artist Aisha Mirza shares with us some of their favorite things, which includes a blog about Afrofuturism and the Caribbean and African diaspora in Britain, the music of Kadhja Bonet, and their grandmother’s mince puff pastries.
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Brandon Jordan Brown is a Portland, Oregon-based poet who frequently collaborates with filmmakers and other artists. Here, he shares with us some of the things he likes, including theopoetics, C.D. Wright’s Deepstep Come Shining, and the Japanese band toe.
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Author Matthew Sharpe speaks with artist Sue Havens about her work, Turkish embroidery, ephemera, raku ceramics, and more.
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Nkosi Nkululeko's work explores the body and how bodies grow into citizens of unjust worlds. The recipient of fellowships from Poets House, the Watering Hole, and Callaloo, Nkululeko shares with us some of his current favorites, including music from R+R+NOW, Rosalind E. Krauss’s Passages in Modern Sculpture, and the works of Isamu Noguchi.
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Alisson Wood, MFA candidate and author of the forthcoming book Being Lolita, shares some of her favorite things at the moment, including Neko Case’s new album, feminist parody play Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf, and, surprisingly, pigeons.
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