This week’s guest is another past BY contributor. If you got your hands on a zine last year, you saw his Four Poems that most likely ripped your heart out of your chest. Seth Stevens is a man of many tastes and interests, constantly staying In the Know all the while pursuing a law degree. If you’re looking to elevate your general presence and knowledge, click these links!
Reading
I’m finishing up law school right now in Lexington, KY, and while I’m spending more time in front of a screen than I’d like, Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude has got my soul calibrated with all the best things about Spring. It’s an ode to the poet’s community garden in Bloomington, IN, where “we dreamt up an orchard,” where an apple tree “was tamped by a baby barefoot / with a bow hanging in her hair / biting her lip in her joyous work / and friends this is the realest place I know.” I knew about and loved the poem, but what I found this week and love even more is him telling it over Bon Iver’s ambient backdrop…
Spoken word reading (from Jagjagwar)
Text (from the poetry foundation)
Listening
Brooklyn artist Blaketheman1000 is making some of the catchiest and most approachable hyperpop music out there. I’ve had “Ibuprofen” on repeat all week…
Pinegrove’s Everything So Far, a 21-song collection of early demos, is perfect spring listening. It’s got a cozy, homemade goodness in it that I can’t get enough of—especially in songs like Need 2. Listen to that old piano at the end!
Wearing
I’ve been looking for a pair of boots that are versatile enough to rock at the dive bar on Thursday night and wear into the office on Friday. Solovair’s Monkey Boot is checking all the boxes
The fishing vest has ascended to high fashion in the last couple of years thanks to brands like Snow Peak, but I don’t think anyone’s doing it as well as The North Face and Online Ceramics. They knocked this one out of the park
Everything Else
Sounding off with some concert posters from Julia Fletcher