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[joanbpoet]

“Ppl are too busy callin themselves “poets” to notice the canary died”

Tommy Pico, Junk

#tommy pico #poem #poetry #quote #quotation #yes #a hundred times yes #junk #heyteebs #tin house #tin house books

[sirinthada]

From Tommy Pico (@heyteebs): ”Like, poetry? In a global pandemic? In a severe economic downturn? Fuck that shit. But I went. There were maybe twelve of us in the room. Everybody read. I felt it. Poetry and honesty. Poetry and a clarity of feeling. Poetry and a truth. I needed something so badly to be true." So stoked to illustrate his essay, inaugurating @Catapult’s new POETRY series (also edited by @heyteebs). Special thanks to @mattortile ❤️ Link in bio (including audio of his reading!). . . . . . . #sirinthada #tommypico #catapult #illustration #editorialillustration #magazineillustration #editorialart #magazineart #illustrated #zoom #zoommeeting #poetryillustration #quarantinelife #illustratorsoninstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CBwi1FaHX9O/?igshid=1gn54cbcuk87e

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[cultfaction]

Reposted from @saratomko19 We’re crazy. We’re hiking. We’re phoning home. ••• Tune in TONIGHT 9pm on @syfy @residentalien Written by @heyteebs 🚨🚨🚨 https://www.instagram.com/p/CaKgx0jM2Z6/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sarahelainesmith-blog]

Tarot writing prompt for Friday, April 16: Capricorn I love a Capricorn. It's all about the whip, the crop, the sucked-in gut. You know there's a surrender within work and a freedom in containers. the prompt: Give yourself a creative assignment. Not like a "go take a nap!" assignment, but something a little bit whippy-croppy-gut-suck-inny. It'll hurt. It'll feel good. listen: “Work Bitch,” Britney Spears read: from “IRL,” Tommy Pico (entire excerpt in stories) . . . follow me @braindoggies for daily tarot writing prompts + music and poetry Rx 👁👁 . . Deck: @spoliatarot Music Rx: @britneyspears I love you Poetry Rx: @heyteebs I love you too/ let’s talk about Tracy Anderson sometime Tableau: @esti_______ (at Joshua Tree, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNvOuVRhkU6/?igshid=12wa1y7qb0lk5

[culturite]

bc what- ever season it is it will not be open season on my spirit ☁️ @heyteebs (at Somewhere Under the Clouds)

[prairielights]

Join us tonight! For another reading partnering with @writers_at_grinnell featuring @jennybagel and @heyteebs in conversation with @dean_bakopoulos . 7pm CT, link to register in our bio! (at Prairie Lights Bookstore) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFuiR3HnAmg/?igshid=3rgx4uig8rom

[fransquishco]

🚨 SAD GIRL ALERT 🚨 I’ll be reading some very sad (also mad) pieces of my writing TOMORROW for my favorite show in NYC hosted by the delectable @morganapple0 and @heyteebs, along with appearances from other cool geniuses like @eve.ewing, @samsax1, @museummammy, @djsharp, & @jaysonpsmith. I’ve been looking forward to this for months and I’d really like y’all to come thru. FREE RSVP in my bio. 👆🏽 Photo by @sashafoto. http://ift.tt/2ouvrYH

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[let--love-in]

Thoughts on the Thots. (More in pics) I had the honor and pleasure of seeing @gayslutswhoread the amazing podcast Food4Thot live last week at their last live show in Seattle. I don’t take myself out very often and was anxious to go alone, but I am so glad I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and decided to go. The discussion was sexy and intimate, silly and thoughtful. I felt so inspired by everything you all had to say, and also by the energy in the room and the queer space you have created. The main topic was joy and how we can seek it out and find it in this current political climate. How can we be happy when the world is burning around us. And well it hit very close to home. You all had so many great insightful ideas, but I feel like the common thread for you was that community is joy. And chosen family is joy. And more specifically queer family is joy. I want you all to know that I have not felt as much joy as I did in that theater in a very long time. ... I am trying to cultivate what you four have with each other in my own life. I feel so lucky to witness, listen in on, and be a part of the magic you create together. Thank you for sharing your beautiful minds and hearts with the world. Your art is literally changing the world. I feel so motivated and inspired every time I listen to y’all. And I can’t wait to find my own chosen queer family. I promise to take all I’ve learned from you and use it to make the world a more loving, inclusive, and safe place for all people. @heyteebs @bluurgh @fransquishco @dennisearlii @lsdipalma (at Columbia City Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7mTgoiDb6D/?igshid=192cplp9ey77e

[wehoarts]

Hear from the Southern California finalists of the 31st Annual Lammy Awards! Readers include @kazimalipoet, @steve_mac_isaac, @gkhudson, @heyteebs, and Mark Russell. Presented by @lambdaliterary and @wehoarts. 5/29 at 7PM. Free admission. Visit www.weho.org/pride for more info. #weho #wehoreads #onecityonepride #lambdaliterary #lammyawards #poetry #poet #culture #free #arts #lgbt #pride #losangeles http://bit.ly/2W5tDG9

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[kaploded2]

#Repost @heyteebs (@get_repost) ・・・ Regram from @floweroid aka When u been abt that zine life aka Humble beginnings aka Started from the bottom aka Started from the top, shit u dont know me lol #jaunty #SomeoneLikeYou #faggotry #gay #poetry #zines #Gummy #gravy

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[bookculturebookstore]

Q&A with Tommy Pico

We're big fans of poet Tommy Pico at Book Culture. His newest book, Nature Poem, is just out from Tin House Books; those of us who loved his IRL have been eagerly awaiting its release. When we found out he'd be coming to Columbia to take part in their Art+Life reading series this week, we took the opportunity to ask him a few questions.

1. How did you come to write Nature Poem?

I had just spent four months hold up in an office in Greenpoint writing my first book (IRL) while all my friends went to the beach and lakes upstate and shit. I decided to stay with a friend for a few weeks in PDX with the express goal of doing nothing. After two days of that I started to get anxious (I’m bad at like three things and relaxing is one of them [jk I’m bad at a lot]), and I just started writing Nature Poem.

2. While Nature Poem is tragic, touching, and something downright sad, you aren't afraid to be funny too. How do you think your humor is connected to the more serious issues you take up in your poetry?

I guess I feel like I have to earn those sadder moments by opening with a joke. It’s a little bit of a bait and switch, a little bit country, and a little bit rock & roll.

3. In addition to your writing, you have been/are very involved in various community and literary organizations--birdsong, Lambda Literary, Poets With Attitude. How do you view the connection between your work in the (literary) world and your poetic creation?

I’m from an Indian reservation near San Diego where I was raised to put a premium on community. In lieu of the place I left, I find myself creating community wherever I go. That’s maybe a really corny way of saying it. In another way: to create work that expresses a kind of vulnerability, I need to feel like I’m taken care of and held onto in other ways.

4. What are you currently reading? And as you ask on your podcast Food 4 Thot (which we also love), who are you currently reading?

I’m currently reading Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You and Whereas by Layli Long Soldier. In terms of reading, I’m just sitting here watching all these presses who rejected my first book add me on Twitter like… hey b, you good?

5. What's next for you? Any upcoming book projects in the works you can tell us about?

I’m currently working with Cinereach Ltd. on a screenplay, and that’s all I can contractually say on the matter ;-)

Thanks, Tommy! ( @heyteebs )

#Nature Poem #Tommy Pico #Food 4 thot #What Belongs to You #Garth Greenwell #Author Q&A #poetry #queer authors #queer poetry #tin house books

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via Tommy Pico (@heyteebs) on Twitter

[skeetshoot]

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favorite novel from the 21st century: none? it took me a while to remember the last contemporary fiction I read, but I did love 'the lazarus project.'writers I love on tumblr: tommy pico! @heyteebs. I'm psyched to read 'nature poem' soon now that I'm done with classes.do I keep a journal? yes! multiple.what things would I like to change about my writing: hmmm... nothing really. I always feel like metaphors are corny, I wish they felt more natural in the process. also, I wish I wrote prose more often.5 pieces of advice to new/unsure writers: READ/just WRITE it/take editing seriously/find readers you trust/again, READhow much time/effort do you spend developing your particular aesthetic: no time/all the time. conscious effort on that is the height of pretense. just write it and your voice/style/aesthetic will reveal itself and will evolve

[heyteebs]

Just a reminder, i'm off all the internet things for the next 7 months but u can still catch me at tinyletter.com/heyteebs Bye yall 😥

[onepoetscorner]

from “Junk”

[...] Everyone, they say, has a new pop punk fuck boy built like a yeti with the stick straight Veronica Lake bang Dating is hard bc gay men are a garbage fire Why do ppl say they “love food” like it’s a revelation A secret I’m such a food-aholic Oh, like literally every other living organism in existence? Junk breathes How dare ppl be born in the ‘90s I like tall guys bc I’m lookin for someone who can fend off the ppl who will kill us when we swap spit in the karaoke booth That time we hung out with our giddy newness at the Mexican restaurant by the  bookstore with the best reading series in the city and the glassy eyes zooming in on each other Seeing only the wonder, like canary yellow on a canary or when our sky wraps up in Earth’s shadow This is my yellow heart This is my gauzy two- people-gazing-across-the-night-into-each-other instrumental situation Who owns the attraction passing between bodies We say neurons “fire” because a frame of mind needs the border of poetry Something fuzzy buzzing Your face glows coastal, leaves me feelin fine as the powdery shoreline at low tide Dummy, all our lives we are the wavelengths of light who escape the negative space Urge toward sunset scattered roadways, morning haze, and the gusting forward of time Oh shut the fuck up Voices change How dare you tether me to lines I wrote in like 2009 Goin over yr Junky poems huh? Do you ever wish you cd just be always one self? “Whole” is a privilege and a pedestal [...] --- from Junk by Tommy Pico (@heyteebs)

#poetry #tommy pico #heyteebs

[fransquishco]

✨ FRANNOUNCEMENT ✨ The night of May 23, I'll be co-hosting a LIVE show of my podcast #food4thot in conversation with the ineffable @heyteebs to launch his (extremely good) book "Nature Poem." Join us for rosé, homosexual party games, and absolute filth. For more deets & RSVP, check my bio. 👆🏽 Photo by @benfwagner who also designed cute MERCH we'll be giving out that evening. http://ift.tt/2qkQV7I

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