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Tommy Pico

Born

The United States

Website

http://heyteebs.tumblr.com

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Genre

Poetry

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Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), Junk (forthcoming 2018 from Tin House Books), the zine series Hey, Teebs and the chapbook app absentMINDR (VerbalVisual 2014). He was the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008-2013. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, 2016 Ace Hotel New York “Dear Reader” resident, 2016 Tin House summer poetry scholar, was longlisted for Cosmonauts Avenue’s inaugural poetry prize (judged by Claudia Rankine), and has poems in BOMB, Poetry magazine, Tin House, and elsewhere. He’s read for New York’s iconic ...more

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hey bbs just a heads up I finally did the whole squarespace...

hey bbs just a heads up I finally did the whole squarespace thing and made a “real” website over at tommy-pico.com, so that’s where I’ll be updating everything from now on. Oh and I posted a new poem that’s kind of a mash up of some old work with new work as the connective tissue between the stuff called “I See the Fire that Burns Within You” that I was commissioned to make for a conference on hea

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Average rating: 4.3 · 6,163 ratings · 913 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nature Poem 4.29 avg rating — 2,966 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	IRL 4.26 avg rating — 1,185 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Junk 4.30 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tacey M. Atsitty (Contributor), Layli Long Soldier (Contributor) 4.42 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feed 4.29 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brooklyn Poets Anthology by Jason Koo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Pan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Philip Levine (Contributor) 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absent Mindr really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hello Mr #3 by Ryan Fitzgibbon (Editor), Justin Keenan (Sub-editor), Khalid El Khatib 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I thot falling in love was a burden A kind of crowding on my landscape Love creates space, dummy Doesn’t take it up”
― Tommy Pico, Junk

tags: poetry

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“How do statues become more galvanizing than refugees
is not something I wd include in a nature poem.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

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“What is a fact even?
James rolls his eyes. What do you mean what’s a fact? A fact is a fact. Facts are real. Proven. Objective.
[…]
I say Facts are fallacies, created and curated by authority figures w/agendas and I say, Facts are used to subjugate, intimidate, enslave, and kill entire “races” of ppl reproductive rights etc I say, so yeah I have a complicated relationship with facts and pretty much everything. The only thing objective abt facts is yr blind allegiance to them. James.”
― Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

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