Tommy Pico
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Tommy Pico (Kumeyaay nation) is a gay[citation needed], indigenous writer, poet, and podcast host.
Early Life
Pico grew up on the Viejas Reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, near San Diego. His father was a reservation chairman.[1][2] Pico started writing comics at age 5, and as a teenager created zines and wrote poetry.[3]
He attended Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied pre-med with the intention of returning to the reservation as a doctor. He decided not to pursue medicine and moved to New York City, where he worked as a barista in Williamsburg and started writing poetry.[1]
As of 2018, Pico lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn.[3]
Work
In 2016, Pico's first book IRL was published by the small press Birds, LLC.[4] IRL is written as one long text message, drawing on the epic tradition.[3] IRL received critical acclaim and was included on best-of-the-year lists for 2016.[5][6] In 2017, it received the The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.[7]
Pico's second book, Nature Poem was published in 2017 by Tin House. Pico again used the epic format, in this case to explore and challenge stereotypes of Native Americans as "noble savages" who are one with nature.[8] Nature Poem also received critical acclaim.[9][10][11]
Pico co-curates the live reading series Poets With Attitude with Morgan Parker,[12] and he is the co-host of the podcast Food 4 Thot, a podcast about queer identity, race, sex, relationships, literature, and pop culture.[13]
Bibliography
- IRL (2016, Birds, LLC: ISBN 9780991429868)[14]
- Nature Poem (2017, Tin House: ISBN 9781941040638)[15]
References
- ^ a b Moskowitz, Peter (September 9, 2016). "The Anger and Joy of a Native-American Poet in Brooklyn". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ "Tommy Pico". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ a b c Street, Mikelle (February 14, 2018). "All Media All Star". The New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ Knapp, Michaelsun Stonesweat. "The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico". The Rumpus. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "Best of 2016: Best Poetry Books & Collections". Entropy Magazine. November 30, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "Literary Hub's Best Books of 2016:Our 35 Favorite Books of the Year". Literary Hub. December 20, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize". Brooklyn Public Library. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "Tommy Pico's New Book Confronts American Indian Stereotypes". NYLON. May 9, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 8, 2017". Publisher's Weekly. May 5, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "Destruction and Deconstruction in Tommy Pico's Nature Poem". Los Angeles Review of Books. May 9, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ Cornum, Lou (May 11, 2017). "Brooklyn is a Broken Land: on Tommy Pico's Nature Poem". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "The Archive Project - Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith". KUOW. February 14, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
- ^ "Food 4 Thot". Food 4 Thot. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ Pico, Tommy (2016). IRL. Birds, LLC. ISBN 9780991429868. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
- ^ Pico, Tommy (2017). Nature Poem. Tin House. ISBN 9781941040638.
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