Tommy Pico

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that publishes art and writing. He’s the author of absentMINDR (VERBALVISUAL, 2014)—the first chapbook APP published for iOS mobile/tablet devices—was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has been published in BOMB, Guernica, and the Best American Poetry blog. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn.

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  Poems

  Junk: An Excerpt

  facing the possibility of total economic collapse on the back of / war and falling oil prices vs Australia’s avocado shortage

  On November 30, 2016 / By Tommy Pico
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  Poems

  IRL: A Third Excerpt

  One night she steals / an onion from one / of the nuns tells me it’s / the sweetest thing she ever / tasted.

  On August 20, 2014 / By Tommy Pico
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  Poems

  IRL: A Second Excerpt

  feasting on boys ideas / and language and chips / of technology. Sometimes / real food.

  On August 14, 2014 / By Tommy Pico
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  Poems

  IRL: An Excerpt

  Who deserves yr story? / Not all stories. Not my story / my lol truth not life of live-/ lihood or food.

  On August 6, 2014 / By Tommy Pico