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Tommy Pico

Tommy Pico
Tommy "Teebs" Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds LLC, 2016), Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), and Junk (Tin House Books, 2018). He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural Fellow, Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry, and NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and he's the winner of a Whiting Award and the Brooklyn Public Library's Literature Prize. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.


From Tommy Pico’s Book-Length Poem, Junk

“How can 'happiness' be anything more than a metaphor for privilege.”
May 9, 2018  By Tommy Pico
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How to Pass the Time on a Holiday Commemorating the Destruction of Your Ancestors

A Kumeyaay Poet Makes Plans for Thanksgiving
November 26, 2015  By Tommy Pico
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