#Tommy Pico

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April is National Poetry Month! Here's some of my favorite collections! Full titles under the cut!

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Black Movie by Danez Smith

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

The Twenty Ninth Year by Hala Alyan

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon

IRL by Tommy Pico

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom

Homie by Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

#bookblr #poetry #national poetry month #kai cheng thom #danez smith #tommy pico #alok vaid-menon #langston hughes #fatimah asghar #hala alyan #claudia rankine

[lgbtqreads]

Happy National Poetry Month!

We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with – what else – queer poetry recommendations! This page contains a select few titles, but we do, of course, have entire poetry pages, so please avail yourselves! Poetry Collections All Earthly Bodies by Michael Mlekoday From cities and cross-country bus rides to swamps and fern forests, Michael Mlekoday’s All Earthly Bodies celebrates the ungentrifiable,…

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#Black Girl Call Home #cyrus parker #Dear Medusa #Dear Mothman #Feed #Forever Is Now #Jasmine Mans #K.A. Holt #Mariama J. Lockington #Michael Chang #Night Sky with Exit Wounds #Ocaen Vuong #Olivia Cole #Poetry #Redwood and Ponytail #Robin Gow #Synthetic Jungle #Tommy Pico

[gennsoup]

People r so concerned abt "the Earth" in the sense of kale salad and bruised gin She'll be just fine. We might not make it, hopefully.

Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

#Tommy Pico #Nature Poem #environmentalism #nihilism #earth #climate crisis #extinction #human extinction #Indigenous literature #Indigenous poetry #poetry #poetry quotes #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature

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“Wherever we go, needs feed and I find it harder and harder to / believe benevolence is the thing Thousands of Yazidi girls // missing and plastic fills the ocean’s mouth and the cursive of / yr name still occupies the canopy of my throat Fuel, the under- // pinning What fires your gd engine Rigor, mortis Cold as / unmoving or unmoved The opposite of music Warm in the // cold universe Molten, forming A rock becoming magma / becoming lava becoming land Land, the trauma of lava Lava // the lamp of the ancestors and later a cheeky find in the Junk / shop”

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#closed polls #polls #poetry #poems #poetry polls #poets and writing #junk #tommy pico #junk tommy pico #tommy pico junk #indigenous writers #lgbt #lgbt poetry

[tristealven]

People tell me that [by putting pop culture and tweets in poems] I’m going to date myself—but that’s the project! I want what I write to be a product of its time, and if that means you need a companion guide to understand it in the future, so be it—that’s what they gave T.S. Eliot. I feel like bringing the profanity of life to the table—you know, getting face-fucked in a pizza parlor bathroom and putting all into a poem. Is that not literary? Is that not worthy of a record? When I’m writing, I can’t pick and choose—I want everything to be the subject of the poem, and subject to the poem.

#tommy pico #carmen maria machado #poetry

[ashtrayfloors]

…            The tune of memory—The drinking fountains in Paris The disappearing fog Muse, a punk alcoholic San Francisco early morning Polaroid of deep breathing in a tight sweater Burnt sienna—inviting oil slick rainbow A copper jumpsuit draped on a lampshade Lip- stick print on a bay window and the wind- ow is broken and nobody is home—Maroon road rage The way you can’t see stars in the city but we have street lamps Smudged yellow leather elbow patch on a smoking jacket The brink of eyelashes The clink of rousing from a nap Coming to or coming in or on 8pm and I’m call collecting I’m collecting Muse chasing I’m watching him slip from one boy to the next— He’s a British composer, he makes books in Baltimore, he’s flying me to Lisbon He’s an actor, musician, packs me into a pop song He’s fucking my friend—I can’t be in the same room with him. We’re getting coffee. It’s good to see you. I agree.

—Tommy Pico, from IRL (Birds, 2016)

#quotations #poetry #tommy pico #irl #currently reading #the muse #i absolutely love his conception / personification of Muse in this book

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How do statues become more galvanizing than refugees is not something I wd include in a nature poem

Tommy Pico, from his book-length poem “Nature Poem”, Tin House Books, 2017

#tommy pico #quotes #poetry #words #found* #on politics

[wehavewords]

"What if I really do feel connected to the land? What if the mountains around the valley where I was born, what if I see them like faces when I close my eyes? What if I said hi to them in the mornings and now all their calls go to voicemail?"

Tommy Pico

#wehavewords #tommy pico #words #quotes #life quotes #life #quotes about life #true words #favorite quotes #book inspiration #nature quotes #mountains

[milf-stevebuscemi]

get in, loser- we're touring landscapes of the interior

Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

#Poetry #I liked this one #Tommy Pico #Nature poem

[lisareadsthings]

Look, I’m sure you really do just want to wear those dream catcher earrings. They’re beautiful. I’m sure you don’t mean any harm, I’m sure you don’t really think abt us at all. I’m sure you don’t understand the concept of off-limits. But what if by not wearing a headdress in yr music video or changing yr damn mascot and perhaps adding .05% of personal annoyance to yr life for the twenty minutes it lasts, the 103 young ppl who tried to kill themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation over the past four months wanted to live 50% more

Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

#tommy pico #nature poem #poetry

[notes-from-chaos]

Reservation Dogs S2 E10

*Spoiler Alert* Elora, Willie Jack, Bear and Cheese finally make it to California. And bam, their car full of cash gets stolen. But not to worry, they find white Jesus who shows them the way to the beach where they then fulfill their friend Daniel's dream. I love the beach and everytime I go to one, I am in awe just like these 4 were, looking at the sea for the first time to seek peace, closure and to let go of the pain of losing a friend. It’s quite something the beach. What I like about it is that I can almost completely let go. It’s just you, the waves, its sounds and the cool breeze. The waves calm my brain chatter. Just their crashing sounds remain. I almost completely shut down and I think, I like that. To see the patterns the waves form and the colours of the sky at sunset. Orange, yellow, red, purple, pink. To feel the sand and water on my feet and to let it sink me a little, I like it all.

To see them experience the beach for the first time and learning to let go, felt good.

#reservationdogs #sterlin harjo #taika waititi #tommy pico #rez dogs #bear #willie jack #elora #cheese

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Indigenous Fiction Audiobooks

Fave Five: Indigenous Fiction Audiobooks

All links are Libro.fm affiliate. Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to the Earth by Darcie Little Badger, narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston (YA) The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson, narrated by Julie Lumsden (YA) A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt, narrated by Jesse Nobess This Town Sleeps by Dennis Staples, narrated by Kaipo Schwab Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, narrated…

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#Billy-Ray Belcourt #Black Sun #Cara Gee #Darcie Little Badger #Dennis Staples #Indigenous #Indigiqueer #Jen Ferguson #Kaipo Schwab #Nicole Lewis #Rebecca Roanhorse #Shaun Taylor-Corbett #This Town Sleeps #Tommy Pico

[gennsoup]

Winter is a death threat from nature, and I don't respond well to predation--

Tommy Pico, Nature Poem

#Tommy Pico #Nature Poem #winter #winter quotes #snow #Snowmageddon #blizzard #snowstorm #snow quotes #threat #predation #Indigenous literature #Indigenous poetry #poetry #poetry quotes #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[jonathanjudge]

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[tristealven]

Carmen: I’m not a poet, but I’ve been writing poems to avoid the book I should be finishing. I needed to create a discrete, beautiful thing that felt accomplishable in one sitting. I write fiction primarily, and poems have a reputation for being autobiographical. But I keep reminding myself that poems can also be fiction. Tommy: Whether or not they’re fiction, there’s going to be some level of artifice—but there’s something about the feeling that’s always true.

“Tommy Pico and Carmen Maria Machado investigate horror as a reflection of the American psyche” by Camille Sojit Pejcha. Document Journal, January 10, 2023.    

#tommy pico #carmen maria machado #writing #on poetry

[hallohartje]

just scalp me tommy pico

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