Pico's poems value the vulgar and silly, as they mingle laffs and puns with colonialism, death, trauma, and our society’s disgraceful treatment of Janet Jackson. Read More
Where does poetry come from? Tommy Pico finds poetry everywhere, in everything. He makes the long poem popular again. He combats the MFA poet with colloquialisms and pop culture. Read More
"[...]if you want to develop a real relationship in the city, I think it's important to be in the path of that person, regularly, as a matter of course. You have to share a place—a neighborhood, or work or school or a commute or a coffee shop or a bar or scene. Something so the artifice of dating doesn't overwhelm the function."
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from writer Tommy Pico.
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