Thems
June 16, 2014
I say “and them” and mean / how in “the sticks” where I lived, the reservation, the mail / boxes were like maypoles at the end of the Earth
Tommy Pico
Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the founder and editor of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and lit/art zine. He’s the author of absentMINDR (VERBALVISUAL, 2014)—the first chapbook app for iOS mobile/tablet devices—was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has published in BOMB, [PANK], and Flavorwire. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he lives in Brooklyn.