Absent Mindr

by Tommy Pico

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

About the author

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 Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, the KGB reading series, and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) amongst many others, and has been profiled in Fusion, Nylon, and the New Yorker. 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 at the Ace Hotel, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.

Photo credit: Niqui Carter

Reviews

[Alex Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these poems, love that I get to carry them wherever I go. This chapbook works really well as a set of sequence but the nature of the app makes it also really easy to go back and reread/listen to poems. Reading these, I often feel like Pico's giving us a transcript of what goes on in his mind. There's a fluidity to these poems (even when the thoughts themselves might meander), one that really comes through when you listen to the recordings. Anyway, I can't gush enough. <3