Podcast appearances and mentions of Tommy Pico

Notes and Links to Greg Mania's Work         Greg Mania's words have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, Oprah Daily, PAPER, among other international online and print platforms. He is also a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine, he hosts The Rumpus's #ShowUsYourDesk on Instagram Live, and co-hosts Empty Trash, a reading series in Los Angeles. His debut memoir, Born to Be Public, is out now from CLASH Books.    He lives in Los Angeles, where he spends his days writing and hanging out with his boyfriend, the poet and TV writer Tommy Pico, whose commitment to the bit rivals his own.       Buy Born to Be Public   Greg Mania's Website   Lambda Literary Review of Born to Be Public   “How Born to Be Public Author Greg Mania Lived a Double Life Before Coming Out” for Oprah Daily At about 2:10, Greg talks about growing up in Central New Jersey, and his cultural life and the ways in which New York City held a special magnetism for him At about 5:35, Greg describes the different parts of New Jersey and its immortal malls  At about 6:45, Greg responds to Pete's questions about growing up speaking Polish and whether his writing in English has parallels in Polish  At about 8:15, Greg explains how he's a “word nerd” and how this and his family affects his joke creation  At about 9:40, Greg talks about how he and Ruth Madievsky vibe for me many reasons, including a shared affinity for dark humor At about 12:30, Greg notes that Born to Be Public has been **translated into Polish** At about 13:20, Greg gives background on Poland and its evolving conservatism and liberalism  At about 14:15, Greg shows his Beverly Cleary-related tattoo and shouts out his love of Garfield and other dark/weird humor in growing up; Phyllis Diller gets stanned  At about 16:30, n expanding upon his love for Pee Wee Herman, Greg talks about his love for and interest in persona  At about 17:40, Phyllis Diller gets stanned more as Greg notes an incredible sign from Phyllis/the universe At about 19:25, Greg discusses the litany of publications with which he works, and being a “freelance” writer in a year of transformation At about 21:20, Greg responds to Pete's question about his writing routine At about 24:50, Greg gives information on his upcoming novel project  At about 27:15, Greg answers Pete's question about how taking his nonfiction to fiction is “freeing” At about 30:10, Greg lists Ruth Madievsky, Samantha Irby, Emily Austin, Rufi Thorpe, Kristen Arnett, Chantal Johnson, Kimberly King Parsons as some of the writers who thrill and challenge her At about 32:40, Greg responds to Pete's asking about how one is funny on the page At about 34:25, Greg makes a startling Friends'-related admission At about 35:15, Pete and Greg discuss the interplay between the humor and heaviness in his book At about 39:20, Sand art! At about 40:30, Greg talks about advice from a writer about how he ended up writing a book that has resonated with so many  At about 41:30, Greg reflects on childhood fears and the ways in which he has worked through these fears and compulsions  At about 43:45, The two discuss fixations with death At about 44:40, Greg gives background on his childhood fascination with chimneys and diesel trains, and his dad's selflessness At about 47:30, Greg talks about the ways in which his parents' generosity and love was counterbalanced by homophobia and migraines and anxiety  At about 51:00, Greg details some harmful words from a childhood doctor  At about 53:15, Greg responds to Pete's question about his mindset in retorting to bullies and he mentions the “power” that came with quips  At about 55:15, Pete connects Greg's humor to a Tillie Olsen line and wonders about Greg's feelings at the time  At about 57:45, Greg details how his friend Rachel brought him so much confidence and helped him build his humor At about 1:00:00, Greg talks about the “no inhibitions” that govern his relationships with his boyfriend Tommy in the same way as with Rachel At about 1:01:15, Greg charts how educating himself on his fears has been helpful, particularly with regards to “fight or flight”   At about 1:05:15, Pete notes a “LOL” moment that sums up a classic college trope  At about 1:07:30, Greg speaks to the idea of “identity as never neat” At about 1:09:00, Greg talks about the links between his first friends in New York and Lady Gaga and the ways in which “Greg Mania” (MAYN-ee-uh) grew to fit him At about 1:10:10, Greg discusses how his writing mentors in high school and college helped him on his way to professional writing  At about 1:13:20, Greg talks about the book as A memoir, and how it's him “pars[ing] the different parts of [him]” At about 1:15:50, Greg responds to Pete's questions about his days at “Magic Mondays” and its connection to the worlds of publishing At about 1:19:00, Greg talks about his “majestic” hair (Pete's words) and the ways in which it was his calling card in his clubbing days At about 1:20:40, Greg answers Pete's questions about what comedy writing “satisfies” for him, and Greg expands on the “sacred[ness]” of joke writing At about 1:23:00, Greg details the “reward” in writing jokes and talking humor with his boyfriend At about 1:24:40, Greg talks about the difference between memoir/memoirs and how his book applies to the former        You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1.        I am very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl      Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content! 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In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 559, my conversation with poet, artist, and television writer Tommy Pico. The episode first aired on January 9, 2019. Pico is a poet, artist, and tv writer. He is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, and Feed, and he has written on the television shows Reservation Dogs, Resident Alien and Crystal Lake. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Los Angeles where he makes abstract portraits with various kinds of wax, acrylics, watercolors, food coloring and India ink. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few years ago, Tommy Pico, a queer indigenous American poet, and lover of junk food, set out to learn how to cook. He wanted to get healthier, but also, he wanted a food culture to replace the one that was wiped out when the federal government forced his ancestors onto a reservation. Rather than turn to the past to connect with that culture, Tommy turned to friends to build a new one. His book Feed, an epic poem, is the result of that journey. Tommy and Dan chat about the horrors of airport vegetarian options (pesto-basil-mozzarella with soggy bread smh), what it's like when the food you grow up with is connected to trauma, and how queerness and looking to the future creates an opportunity to make your own legacy. Tommy also reads his poem, “I See The Fire That Burns Inside You.”This episode originally aired on November 4, 2019, and was produced by Dan Pashman, Ngofeen Mputubwele, Peter Clowney, Tracey Samuelson, and Jared O'Connell. The Sporkful production team includes Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O'Hara, Nora Ritchie, and Jared O'Connell.Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.

Join us for an amazing conversation with poet, podcaster, and TV writer Tommy Pico, as he discusses his career and the delineating differences between his different creative pursuits.   Hosted by Lance Morgan. _______________________________________________   Produced by Nat Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.

Red Power Hour hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) in conversation with Tommy Pico and Chad Charlie, writers for the hit FX series Reservation Dogs. Video edition available here  Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Watch out for ice baths and red lipstick on the mirror on another thrilling episode of Two Sentence Horror Stories The Podcast! This episode, hosts Danielle Radford and Megan Rosati are joined by The Killer Inside writer and director Sehaj Sethi and Heidi Saman. Don't  miss this powerful conversation about healthcare equity and get the behind the scenes details on bringing this episode to the screen! Plus, Scream, Queen! Podcast hosts Tommy Pico and Drea Washington join the show to talk about their favorite “final girls” and “Girl, how did she make it to the finale?!” moments! Watch Two Sentence Horror Stories season 3 on The CW and cwtv.com, and catch up on seasons 1 & 2 on Netflix. Follow Instagram.com/twosentencehorrorstories for the latest updates. Links: Sehaj Sethi: https://www.sehajsethi.com Heidi Saman: @Heidi_Saman Tommy Pico: http://tommy-pico.com Drea Washington: https://www.instagram.com/heygrlhey/ Follow Scream, Queen Podcast: https://www.screamqueenpodcast.com  Follow Danielle @ https://twitter.com/danielleradford   Follow Megan @ https://twitter.com/meganrosati  Watch 2SHS on The CW: https://www.cwtv.com/shows/two-sentence-horror-stories/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cohosts Ashley, Amber, and Trista discuss Nature Poem by Tommy Pico. Topics include writing as a form of protest, subverting expectations, and the legacy of colonization. Rep: Queer Indigenous MC If you're interested in reading Nature Poem after listening to this episode, consider borrowing it from your local library or purchasing it from an independent bookstore! Public library locator (USA): https://bit.ly/3FudXPV Independent bookstores (USA and Canada): https://bit.ly/3FifJ6u

It's time for another round of Rant Hotline! You called in to rant about important topics like: Ted Lasso, lazy rivers, crows, and so much more. After that, we have writer, poet, and podcast Tommy Pico (he/him) on the pod to talk about Beyonce, Reservation Dogs, and maybe the best response to "one thing you hate that everyone else loves"... ever. For DBWP, we're highlighting Raquel Willis' list of Black Trans-led and Black Trans-serving initiatives. You can find that list here on Medium. Bari is excited for the Riverdale/Sabrina mashup, and Matt watched The Prince on HBO Max. Follow the team on socials: Matt @MattBellassai, Bari @FinkelBariPie, @UnhappyHourPod (on Twitter), and @UnhappyHour (on Instagram). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Courtney and Chris sit down with George Abraham, author of Birthright (Button Poetry), to talk about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry! George Abraham is a Palestinian American poet and writer from Jacksonville, FL. Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award in Poetry, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry, and was named on Best of 2020 lists with The Asian American Writers' Workshop and The New Arab. He is also the author of the chapbooks al youm (The Atlas Review, 2017), and the specimen's apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, The Arab American National Museum, The Boston Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation, a winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize selected by Tommy Pico, and a recipient of the "Best Poet" title from the 2017 College Union Poetry Slam International. Their writing has appeared in The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Guernica, The Baffler, The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, West Branch, Mizna, and anthologies such as Nepantla, Bettering American Poetry, and Beyond Memory: an Anthology of Arab American Creative Nonfiction. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, and affiliated faculty member at Emerson College, Abraham is currently based in Chicago, IL, where he is a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in Poetry at Northwestern University. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

[REBROADCAST FROM April 30, 2021] Tommy Pico, a queer poet and Kumeyaay Indian joins to discuss Feed, his 2019 book-length poem about what it means to hunger and to be nourished spiritually as a colonized person in America. Feed is the fourth and final book in his "Teebs Cycle," which uses scenes from the poet's life in New York City as gateways into deeper explorations of authenticity, heritage, love and striving.

For the last 20 years, the U.S. has been wrapped up in a costly war in Afghanistan, initially in response to the attacks on September 11. But America's chaotic withdrawal this year, in just a short amount of time, has left the country back in Taliban control, with troops scrambling to get U.S. citizens and Afghan allies out before the deadline of August 31. So how do we make sense of it all? And what will be the impact on U.S. foreign policy going forward? Sam breaks it all down with Monika Evstatieva, senior producer on NPR's Investigations Unit, and Asma Khalid, NPR White House correspondent.Plus, Sam talks about the FX on Hulu series Reservation Dogs with co-creator and executive producer Sterlin Harjo and writer Tommy Pico. They discuss the process of writing a show by and for Native people and why they centered on a coming-of-age story. You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at samsanders@npr.org.

[REBROADCAST FROM April 30, 2021] Tommy Pico, a queer poet and Kumeyaay Indian joins to discuss Feed, his 2019 book-length poem about what it means to hunger and to be nourished spiritually as a colonized person in America. Feed is the fourth and final book in his "Teebs Cycle," which uses scenes from the poet's life in New York City as gateways into deeper explorations of authenticity, heritage, love and striving.   This segment was picked by our Producer Zach Gottehrer-Cohen.

Welcome to the Rez Dogs writers room. 

Autumn Wallace (b. 1996, Philadelphia, PA) is a visual artist who works across media to create paintings and sculptures that examine human sexuality, gender, and the black femme experience. Influenced by early 90's cartoons, Byzantine aesthetics, Baroque Style, and what Wallace describes as “low-quality adult materials”, Wallace's work generates a sense of fluidity whereby figures defy spatial, social, physical, emotional, and psychological boundaries. Wallace is a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Recent solo exhibitions include How to Hug Yourself: 10 Steps (with Pictures), Gaa Gallery, #THECONTAINTERSTORE, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; #MAJORSEXUALCHEESEFETISH, Portside Art Parlor, Philadelphia, PA; How Could I Say No To You?, HOUSE Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and #SingleWithPets, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Wallace is the recipient of numerous fellowships including residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and Yaddo Saratoga Springs, NY. The books mentioned in the interview are Aesop's Fables the Unabridged version, and Nature Poem by Tommy Pico. 'Double Dutch' Acrylic, Oil, Pastel and Rhinestones on Canvas hung by Grommets - approx 73 x 61" - 2020 'Gold Plated Moment' Acrylic, Oil, Pastel and Gold Leaf on PVC - 48 x 48" - 2021

Tommy Pico might not like games, but he came to play. The poet, screenwriter, and podcaster talks about adjusting to life off of the road, stepping into a role in a TV writers room, beginning to write as a social media practice, instinct vs. taste, the texture of balls on one’s taint, and so much more. Plus, a fastpunch round for the ages! NOTE: Make sure you rate us on Apple Podcasts and write us a review!

Tommy Pico, a rising queer poet and Kumeyaay Indian joins to discuss Feed, his 2019 book-length poem, about what it means to hunger and to be nourished as a colonized person in America. Feed is the fourth and final book in his "Teebs Cycle," which uses scenes from the poet's life in New York City as gateways into deeper explorations of authenticity, heritage, love and striving. 

A good story starts at the beginning: for our sophomore episode, we take you home. This episode covers the rematriation of Indigenous land, the movies in our minds, creating homes within ourselves through the internet, and our commitments to care for the land and other living beings. Our poet of choice this week is Tommy Pico who writes streams of consciousness like no other, especially in this section here from Junk. You can find @localfruit.pod news, pao and ash on Instagram. Please take care before indulging in some content, sites like doesthedogdie provide a trigger warning search engine - put in what you're thinking of watching and it mindfully lists possible triggers. Quick Smoothie: Tovaangar - City of Ghosts Ep4 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Neymar! trailer Gentefied trailer The Juice: Boy Directed by Taika Waititi Taika's Oscar Win Speech Reading Nanook's Smile by Michelle H. Raheja Issuma Igloolik Productions + Issuma Summary @artista_celeste for Samantha's art Indigenous Tiktok Comp Account Juan Gabriel's El Noa Noa + Hasta Que Te Conocí Sweet Time by Raveena After Party Bites: Sogorea te Land Trust Recommended Reading Waterways Throughout Indigenous Los Angeles A Celebration of Friendship NYT --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/local-fruit/message

Join Stand with Kashmir and Haymarket Books for a collaborative event series uplifting the work of artists and activists fighting for self-determination and abolition in the face of police brutality, militarism, and settler-colonialism. We will celebrate transnational and inter-movement resistance, exploring both the similarities between the different movements and the aspects that make each unique in its way. We will feature activists, artists and scholars from each movement to tell their story of resistance and resilience, and to strengthen solidarity across borders Participants: Ahmer is a prolific rapper and producer from Srinagar, Kashmir. Since a young age, Ahmer has been acutely aware of the violence that plagues that valley, and his lyrics reflect a self-critical and self-aware artist that is trying to make sense of one of the most complex issues of our time. By diving deep into his and his family's history in the valley. https://azadirecords.com/artist/ahmer/ Destiny Harris is a Black, queer abolitionist and organizer from the west side of Chicago. She is a sophomore, sociology major at Howard University. She believes in the power of grassroots organizing as a vehicle to building collective power and achieving liberation throughout the diaspora. Her work is at the intersection of abolition, anti-war, anti-militarism and environmental liberation. Destiny believes in the power of storytelling, poetry and culture as means of mobilization that should always be driving our movements. She has organized all throughout the city on campaigns like #DefundCPD, #CopsOutCPS and the #NoCopAcademy campaign which aimed to combat the narrative that our communities need police. She is currently a member of Dissenters. Destiny is now working around environmental liberation with Generation Green. Uzma Falak is a DAAD doctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg. Her work has appeared in The Economic and Political Weekly, Al Jazeera, Warscapes, The Caravan, Himal Southasian, Anthropology and Humanism, The Electronic Intifada, and anthologies like Of Occupation and Resistance, Gossamer: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry, among others. Her film ‘Till then the Roads Carry Her' has been screened at numerous film festivals. She was an invited artist-scholar at Warwick's Tate Exchange, 2018 (Tate Modern, London). Her ethnographic poem ‘Point of Departure' won an Honourable Mention in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology's 2017 Ethnographic Poetry Award. Tommy “Teebs” Pico is a poet, podcaster, and tv writer. He is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of the gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now splits his time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot and Scream, Queen! is poetry editor at Catapult Magazine, writes on the FX show Reservation Dogs, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. https://tommy-pico.com/ Jamila Woods is an activist, award-winning poet, and singer/songwriter whose inspirations include Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison, as well as Erykah Badu and Kendrick Lamar. As a solo artist, she specializes in an accessible yet non-commercial form of R&B that is rooted in soul and wholly modern, which can be heard on her albums HEAVN (2016) and LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019). She is also the co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. https://www.jamila-woods.com/ This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Stand with Kashmir. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/YXf1wQ0ZWOM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

This event is now available to watch on our YouTube page, along with the rest of our 2020 festival programming. Co-presented by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers “This notable achievement...is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artist's life." —Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: A Lyric In this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed Brooklyn-based poet/performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. Funeral Diva (City Lights) captures the impact of AIDS on Black Queer life, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Sneed's poems not only converse with lovers past and present, but also with her literary forebears—like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde—whose aesthetic and thematic investments she renews for a contemporary American landscape. Offering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights, Funeral Diva confronts today's most pressing issues with acerbic wit and audacity. The collection closes with Sneed's reflections on the two pandemics of her time, AIDS and COVID-19, and the disproportionate impact of each on African American communities. Sneed discusses and reads from her work, alongside poet and Literary Hub editor Tommy Pico. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation Buy the authors' books: Pamela Sneed -- http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100510140&fa=description Tommy Pico -- https://bookshop.org/a/11096/9781947793576 Browse Litquake's bookstore here -- https://bookshop.org/shop/litquake

Two dynamic BreakBeat poets go poem for poem on the themes that inspire them from Cortney Lamar Charleston's Doppelgangbanger. ---------------------------------------------------- This event is the first in a series of three events curated by Cortney Lamar Charleston in collaboration with The BreakBeat Poets and Haymarket Books, to celebrate the release of his new collection, Doppelgangbanger. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, a writer, speaker, & political strategist. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, & has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo & Poets House. Formerly the Director of Surrogates & Strategic Communications at Elizabeth Warren for President, Camonghne is the VP of Strategic Communications at Blue State. Her first full-length collection of poems, Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books), was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. The author of the chapbook Yolk, she was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a "Black Girl From the Future You Should Know." Felix's forthcoming collection of poems, Dyscalculia, and collection of essays, Let the Poets Govern, are forthcoming from One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker's debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, and creator and host of the live talk show Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. She co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. Parker lives in Los Angeles with her dog Shirley. She is a Sagittarius. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/LyIQRqJPixY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

This week we're discussing an excerpt from Feed by Tommy Pico. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/150764/from-feed No new read for next week since it's our last episode this season.

This week we're discussing A Lower Eastside Poem by Miguel Pinero. https://bit.ly/3bNNpwt We also get into the thorny issue of whether it's ever okay to get a haircut in a graveyard. Next week's read is an excerpt from Feed by Tommy Pico: https://bit.ly/36ak5Nd

(Note: We talk about some of the most common phobias, so skip this episode if you're feeling anxious.) Mary and Wyatt celebrate a year of making the pod in the most festive way imaginable: talking about their deepest, darkest fears! They talk about their own experiences with how to handle fear, how fear can be a gift, and how to tell when a healthy fear has become something bigger. Also on the agenda: the year in review, Elf on the Shelf is in witness protection, and poems by Tommy Pico and Afaa Michael Weaver. 

Host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello get rid of some unnecessary things; poet Tommy Pico explains how writing as his alter ego "Teebs" allows him to be less self-censoring in his work; journalist Eli Saslow discusses Derek Black – the subject of his book "Rising Out of Hatred" – and how the once-heir to the white nationalist movement made a stunning transformation; comedian Emily Heller spins gut-busting analogies to online dating; and indie rock duo The Helio Sequence performs “Lately” from their album "Keep Your Eyes Ahead."

In Episode 4, we welcome our spouses, David and Bonnie, back to the podcast to talk about movies that might be essays. Also: a very delayed mailbag, a story about three-thousand-dollar Pennsylvania whiskey, Arlo makes a cameo, we all do impromptu Werner Herzog impersonations, penguin suicide, essayistic film moves, and (much) more. Links to some things we mention: (In response to the question about queer & trans essayists): T Fleischmann’s books: Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through: https://coffeehousepress.org/products/time-is-the-thing-a-body-moves-through Syzygy, Beauty: http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/syzygy-beauty-an-essay-t-fleischmann Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s website, with links to their essays/books: http://alexandria-marzano-lesnevich.com/ Alex’s Harper’s essay, “Body Language”: https://harpers.org/archive/2019/12/body-language-genderqueerness/ Berry Grass’ website: https://berrygrass.com/ Sung Yim: https://sungliketheword.com/ Jaquira Diaz: http://www.jaquiradiaz.com/ Sandy Allen: https://www.hellosandyallen.com/ Stephanie Burt: https://twitter.com/accommodatingly Wayne Koestenbaum: https://www.waynekoestenbaum.com/bio Tommy Pico: http://tommy-pico.com/ Jennifer Boylan: http://jenniferboylan.net/ Eileen Myles: https://www.eileenmyles.com/ Michelle Tea: https://twitter.com/teamichelle Denry’s latest episode art: https://twitter.com/denrywills/status/1311379250310574080?s=20 Commenter Andrew Forbes’ website, which Justin totally botched his plug for: https://andrewgforbes.com/ The 1993 Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/ Dawson City: Frozen Time, the documentary about lost films Justin almost suggested for this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5215486/ The Act of Killing, the documentary about Indonesian death-squad leaders Elena almost picked for this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/ Abstract, the Netflix documentary series about design & art: https://www.netflix.com/title/80057883 The Writer, a very short & odd 6-minute film/trailer we watched by accident while looking for The Rider: https://www.amazon.com/Writer-Xander-Bailey/dp/B08B7QGWDS Grizzly Man, the Herzog documentary Justin picked: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/ The Rider, the Chloé Zhao film Elena picked: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6217608/ Justin looking like a serial killer on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUL3Cp3w0xg This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Join us for the best reading in all of time and space, featuring the poets of Tin House: Jenny Zhang, Tommy Pico, Morgan Parker and Khadijah Queen! Find their works on the Event Page, here. _______________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.

Are you a local hipster? I think the way we confirm what we believe is by pushing back at what we were told and seeking our own understanding in this world. Beer: Genesis Blonde Sour Ale from Wicked Weed Brewing Poem: portions of "Nature Poem" by Tommy Pico (Tin House, 2017) In Episode 25, we talk from our isolation spots about some of Alyx's favorite recent poetry (ugh, so great, get ready everyone to smile) from Tommy Pico, about local breweries "selling out" and Erica gives us details about the beer Genesis from Wicked Weed Brewing. Cheers!

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of the gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now splits his time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcasts Food 4 Thot and Scream, Queen! and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.

Explore the meaning of “nature” with the Squad as we discuss "Nature Poem" by Tommy Pico. We dig into the book-length poem to talk about what constitutes a “nature poem,” how the speaker’s identity affects his connection to nature, and how Pico uses language to analyze questions of white privilege, queer sexuality, indigenous issues and more. Check out the #BookSquadBlog for TV recaps, Emily’s 12 Days of Christmas Movies series, YA Book Club, and so much more! Go see the new "Little Women" film for our next #othersode on 1/13, and read Stephen King’s novella "Elevation" for our next #bookpisode on 1/27! Send listener feedback on this episode or any other to thesquad@booksquadgoals.com!TOC1:04 – What’s your favorite “natural thing?”12:08 – Book Intro15:10 – Kelli’s publishing corner 16:48 – what is a nature poem? Is this a nature poem?35:35 – language and meaning 54:04 – being known and being famous / poetry references1:07:03 – ratings and Todd’s five things 1:16:03 – the power feedback1:17:23 – what’s on the blog? What’s up next?

Explore the meaning of “nature” with the Squad as we discuss "Nature Poem" by Tommy Pico. We dig into the book-length poem to talk about what constitutes a “nature poem,” how the speaker’s identity affects his connection to nature, and how Pico uses language to analyze questions of white privilege, queer sexuality, indigenous issues and more. Check out the #BookSquadBlog for TV recaps, Emily’s 12 Days of Christmas Movies series, YA Book Club, and so much more! Go see the new "Little Women" film for our next #othersode on 1/13, and read Stephen King’s novella "Elevation" for our next #bookpisode on 1/27! Send listener feedback on this episode or any other to thesquad@booksquadgoals.com!TOC1:04 – What’s your favorite “natural thing?”12:08 – Book Intro15:10 – Kelli’s publishing corner 16:48 – what is a nature poem? Is this a nature poem?35:35 – language and meaning 54:04 – being known and being famous / poetry references1:07:03 – ratings and Todd’s five things 1:16:03 – the power feedback1:17:23 – what’s on the blog? What’s up next?

Listen to the Episode Rolf Potts Interview Synopsis Today’s episode brings us to Kansas, where Rolf Potts speaks with us about writing travel memoir, the differences between memoir and autobiography, and his Paris travel writing summer workshops. Rolf is an American travel writer, perhaps best known for his 2003 book Vagabonding. His essays and articles have been published in Nat Geo Traveler, Outside, The Guardian, and in the Best American Travel Writing 2000 edited by Bill Bryson.  In the episode, we briefly mention Paul Theroux's books The Happy Isles of Oceania and On the Plain of Snakes, and the writing of Maggie Downs, Lavina Spalding, and Tommy Pico. More Episodes & Support I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Travel Writing World podcast! Please consider supporting the show with a few dollars a month, less than a cup of coffee, to help keep our show alive and advertisement-free. You can also support the show by leaving a positive review on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcasting app, subscribing to the show, and following us on Twitter & Instagram. Finally, join the Travel Writing World newsletter to receive your free copy of The Travel Writer’s Guidebook. You will also receive monthly dispatches & reports with podcast interviews, travel writing resources, & book recommendations. Thanks for your support! Intro Music Peach by Daantai (Daantai’s Instagram) .ugb-694f92e .ugb-block-content{justify-content:center}.ugb-694f92e .ugb-button1{background-color:#0693e3;border-radius:4px !important}.ugb-694f92e .ugb-button1 .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-694f92e .ugb-button1 svg{color:#ffffff}.ugb-694f92e .ugb-button1:before{border-radius:4px !important}.ugb-694f92e .ugb-inner-block{text-align:center}SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST

Today's poem is an excerpt from Nature Poem by Tommy Pico.

Ho, ho, ho, kweens! Tis the season to be creepy crawly lol NE WAYZ we're not back just yet but we wanted to tease you a lil bit with some premium between season scares. You see, this year Teebs's birthday was on Friday the 13th, which was both the opening day of the new BLACK CHRISTMAS remake AND a Friday the 13th movie marathon at the Alamo Draft House. So our Act II main discussion is gonna be on all things Black Christmas, while our Act I (pour one out) & Act III (scream queen) will be taken from Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Jason Lives, The New Blood, and Jason Takes Manhattan. Chop, chop! Hoe-sted by Drea Washington (@heygrlhey) & Tommy Pico (@heyteebs) Produced by Alexandra DiPalma & Domino Sound (@dominosoundco) Theme music by Doc Allison (@docisgood) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's the most wonderful time of the year: #BSG Best of the Year episode time! The Squad breaks down each of our top three favorite pop culture things of 2019 — including books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, video games, and new music. Then we exchange Secret Santa gifts and give you that delicious ASMR wrapping paper noise you've been craving. Write to thesquad@booksquadgoals.com to tell us YOUR favorite things of 2019! Read along with us for our last #bookpisode of the year on Tommy Pico's "Nature Poem" (12/30), and go see the new "Little Women movie" for our next #othersode on January 13! TOC:58 — Intro q: What’s a new thing you want to try this year?7:29 — Favorite things! Mary’s #3: The Righteous Gemstones12:45 — Susan’s #3: Here to Make Friends Live17:15 — Emily’s #3: Baby Yoda22:04 — Kelli’s #3: Booksmart - Booksmart blog: https://www.booksquadgoals.com/blog/be-a-smartie-go-see-booksmart25:57 — Mary’s #2: Sekiro - Bloodborne Blog: https://www.booksquadgoals.com/blog/late-to-the-game-bloodborne30:20 — Susan’s #2: CRJ’s Dedicated - CRJ Blog: https://www.booksquadgoals.com/blog/run-away-with-us-the-official-bsg-carly-rae-jepsen-starter-pack35:20 — Emily’s #2: Growing Things by Paul Tremblay39:15 — Kelli’s #2: Fleabag season 243:06 — Mary’s #1: Orville Peck47:40 — Susan’s #1: Scams and Fraud - Elizabeth Holmes Blog: https://www.booksquadgoals.com/blog/my-obsession-with-elizabeth-holmes- Fyre Fest Blog: https://www.booksquadgoals.com/blog/basically-a-trash-fyre54:40 — Emily’s #1: Parasite - Us Blog: https://www.booksquadgoals.com/blog/us-vs-us-our-spoiler-heavy-review-of-jordan-peeles-us59:10 — Kelli’s #1: Keep It1:05:47 — Secret Santies1:24:31 — Feedback! 1:27:30 — What’s up next? What’s on the blog?

Grab your night-vision goggles and discrete compact because it’s time for some espionage! This week, the #BookSquad covers American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. We talk about the novel’s epistolary form, racism and sexism in America, questions of loyalty, and the romance at the center of the story. Then we get into some listener feedback about Evvie Drake Starts Over, Circe, and the Memory Police. Check out the #BookSquadBlog for television recaps, holiday-themed posts, and Emily’s 12 Days of Christmas Movies series! Join us on 12/16 for our Best of 2019 / Secret Santa #othersode, and read along with us for our next #bookpisode on Nature Poem by Tommy Pico -- available 12/30.Special Offer for BSG Listeners! Get 20% off the 2020 Refresh Weekly Planner by Workspacery when you enter the code BOOKSQUAD at checkout at www.workspacery.com!TABLE OF CONTENTS::57–intro question—favorite spy property9:30–book intro 13:24–the epistolary novel is back!21:07– racism and sexism in America24:46–how does Marie’s race affect her loyalty to her country and how she’s seen at her job?33:06–the women in Marie’s life40:55–Sankara50:00– the ending56:12–ratings1:05:45–feedback! Finally! 1:14:00–what’s on the blog? What’s up next?https://electricliterature.com/finally-a-novel-centered-on-a-black-woman-spy/

Grab your night-vision goggles and discrete compact because it’s time for some espionage! This week, the #BookSquad covers American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. We talk about the novel’s epistolary form, racism and sexism in America, questions of loyalty, and the romance at the center of the story. Then we get into some listener feedback about Evvie Drake Starts Over, Circe, and the Memory Police. Check out the #BookSquadBlog for television recaps, holiday-themed posts, and Emily’s 12 Days of Christmas Movies series! Join us on 12/16 for our Best of 2019 / Secret Santa #othersode, and read along with us for our next #bookpisode on Nature Poem by Tommy Pico -- available 12/30.Special Offer for BSG Listeners! Get 20% off the 2020 Refresh Weekly Planner by Workspacery when you enter the code BOOKSQUAD at checkout at www.workspacery.com!TABLE OF CONTENTS::57–intro question—favorite spy property9:30–book intro 13:24–the epistolary novel is back!21:07– racism and sexism in America24:46–how does Marie’s race affect her loyalty to her country and how she’s seen at her job?33:06–the women in Marie’s life40:55–Sankara50:00– the ending56:12–ratings1:05:45–feedback! Finally! 1:14:00–what’s on the blog? What’s up next?https://electricliterature.com/finally-a-novel-centered-on-a-black-woman-spy/

In this episode, Wendy Xu recommends Claudia Gray and Tommy Pico recommends A.R. Ammons. This episode is sponsored by Lanternfish Press and HMH. You can subscribe to Recommended in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or in your podcast player of choice. The show can also be found on Stitcher. A transcript of this episode is available here. BOOKS DISCUSSED Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray Lost Stars by Claudia Gray Uprooted by Naomi Novik Pluto by Naoki Urasawa Feed by Tommy Pico Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons

Ahhh parting is such sweet sorrow am I rite? Unless we’re talkin abt partin them cheeks lol NE WAYZ in our final episode of the season we play one final round of our Act I fave, “Have Y’all Seen…” w/Drea. This time she’s wondering if we’ve seen "Night of the Comet", and even though we probably haven’t, we low key probably have (in one form or another). And bc this is the end, my friends, our Act II main discussion topic is on how horror franchises wrap it up—before inevitably coming back. Was that yr “final nightmare,” Freddy? Was that yr “final chapter,” Jason? It’s all very suss tbh. And our final Act III scream queen this week is the goddess Lupita as good girl gone bad and bad girl gone… something... In Us! Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Poet Tommy Pico tells the story of building his own indigenous food history from scratch... A few years ago, Tommy Pico, a queer indigenous American poet, and lover of junk food, set out to learn how to cook. But rather than turn to the past to find an indigenous food history, he turned to friends to build his own. His new book FEED, an epic poem, chronicles that journey. Tommy and Dan chat about the horrors of airport vegetarian options, what it’s like when the food you grow up with is connected to trauma, and how queerness and looking to the future creates an opportunity to make your own legacy. Get access to 500+ more Sporkful episodes and lots of other Stitcher goodness when you sign up for Stitcher Premium: www.StitcherPremium.com/Sporkful (promo code: SPORKFUL). Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.      

R u ever on the verge of falling asleep then suddenly remember when Freddy broke that girl’s arms off and she turned into a literal roach lol ME NEITHER NE WAYZ this week, for Act I we “Pour One Out” with Drea re: Geretta Geretta in Dario Argento’s Demons. Also het Twitter bio reads: “That Black Chick that was in all them ITALiAN HORROR FILMS, Yo!” So #ganggang. Since it’s halloween week we thought we’d discuss everything that goes bump bump bump on all hallow’s eve, and maybe even fuck around & twalk abt the franchise Halloween! Finally, our Act III scream queen this week is Brandy as Karla in I STILL Know What You Did Last Summer (and it was disGUSTING [srsly like have u been to the clinic I’m sure there’s a pill for it]). Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Awww don’t trip! Yr obsessed with us. Why wdn’t u b? We lit-chra-ly put a spell on you lol NE WAYZ in our Act I we play another round of “Is The Sequel an Equal” with Nightmare on Elm Street 2, the gayest movie in American history. Our Act II main discussion topic is on the show Chambers, which my friend recommended in all caps like: IT’S BASICALLY THE NATIVE VERSION OF GET OUT. Trust, Tommy is abt to get very Rez on dat ass. And our Act III scream queen this week is Naomie Harris in 28 Days Later—the baddest binch to chop down a man with a machete. Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Facts: the real scary sh*t is bottoming after Taco Bell, but you’ll have to listen to our sister podcast Food 4 Thot for that mess lol NE WAYZ this week our Act I is another round of “What I Woulda Done Was” ft. Laurie Strode in the monstrosity that was Halloween: Resurrection. Our Act II main discussion topic puts the “R” in IRL: Real shit! Scary stuff on real life sets, scary movies based on real life events, and we ask ourselves: do scary movies have a real life impact on us? Our Act III scream queen this week is the slithery Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda, bc a big ass snake vomited the whole of Jon Voight right in front of her and she didn’t vomit the entire contents of her stomach so #powerful. Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Salutations, scary movie super fans! We’re back again tryin to make u mud butt in yr undies lol NE WAYZ this week we debut an Act I segment called “Have Y’all Seen…” with Drea, bc she has an encyclopedic knowledge of scary movies like lit-chra-ly she’s seen everything. And this week she’s wondering if you’ve seen the goofy 80’s horror flick Society. Act II we’re discussing the expansive, interrogative, exciting documentary Horror Noir: A History of Blackness in Scary Movies. Whew, let’s just say Revelations is not just a book in the Bible. And finally, our Act III scream queen is Vanessa Paradis in Knife & Heart bc gd. That gay porn horror film had us shook and hooked. Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Oh hey girl what’s up? What’s up with me, you ask? Well the heat in the studio this week is UP bc we recorded in summer and it was boiled as fuck NE WAYZ this week we debut our Act I segment “Pour One Out” where we lament the too-early (IMHO) death of a character on screen, in this case Kelly Hu’s Eva in Jason Takes Manhattan. Our Act II main discussion topic is that seminal late 90’s Sci Fi Horror shmashterpiece The Faculty (bc Josh Hartnett is a fully stocked snack machine). And we conclude this week with our Act III scream queen NOTED Beyoncé biter Sanaa Lathan in Alien vs Predator, mostly bc Drea hates this film and Tommy wanted to troll her. Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It was my encounter with Hello Mr in 2016, the magazine about men who date men, that inspired me to throw my hat into the LGBTQ media ring; for the first time, I saw what was possible and I was hooked. I turned to the masthead, saw Fran Tirado’s name and emailed him. We connected, we bonded and he’s since become one of my friends and queeroes. In this conversation, Fran and I discuss the ever-evolving landscape of LGBTQ media, the end of white twink idolatry, enjoying your own company, working in service of a greater purpose and extending and expanding the modern queer cultural canon.We recorded this conversation in New York City during World Pride 2019. Thank you to the team at Acast NYC for all your help.— —Fran Tirado is the former executive editor of Hello Mr and the former deputy editor of Out. He’s the co-creator of Food4Thot, co-host of Queerly Beloved and has recently started his new role at Netflix where he leads the brand’s editorial and engagement strategy for LGBTQ content.— —Authors, works and poets named in this episode include:How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee https://www.alexanderchee.net/autobiographical-novelLooking for Langston, Isaac Julien https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/spotlights/isaac-julien-looking-langstonNature Poem, Tommy Pico https://tinhouse.com/product/nature-poem-by-tommy-pico/Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B22111C10-96F9-4D24-AD78-EF8192FDFBE4%7DTrap Door, Reina Gossett https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/trap-doorDanez Smith http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/bio-encoreAngel Nafis https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/angel-nafis— —@_busybeingblack is the podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives. If you like what you hear, please take a moment to rate, review and subscribe; doing so lets other like us hear the voices amplified here.Thank you to our partners, UK Black Pride and BlackOut UK.

ALERT: Scream, Queen! contains hella spoilers! Well HELLO, back for more I see. Glutton for punishment much? Not gonna lie, kind of a sexy look on u lol NE WAYZ This week our Act I is the debut of our segment “Have Yall Seen” with Drea, and we discuss the late 80s opus about open yard holes: The Gate. Act II, our main discussion topic, is boot or reboot: Child’s Play. Is the reboot worthy? Does it redeem the movie’s complicated relationship to blackness? Will Drea come to the studio dressed as Chucky as she’s done for several different Halloweens? All in good time, friends. All in good time. And our Act III scream queen this week is Octavia Spencer’s character in Ma, bc men are in fact dogs, and DON’T MAKE ME DRINK ALONE is a catchphrase for the gawds. Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the premier ep of this garish glimpse at goblins and ghouls—oh yes, one of our copywriters is a #poet nbd go on abt yr meager life lol NE WAYZ our Act I is a hearty round of “What I Woulda Done Was” featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character in I Know What You Did Last Summer (for the love of god binch, never look back gd!!!). Our Act II main discussion is horror origin stories (no we did not say ‘whore origin stories,‘ catch our sister podcast Food 4 Thot for that)—both how we became obsessed with horror, and some of our fave and least fave origin stories in scary movies. Our Act III scream queen this week is Jada Pinkett Smith in Demon Night—but we absolutely don’t sleep on CCH Pounder in that same flick. Supper time, binch! Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison @docisgood Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scream, Queen! Is a podcast about scary movies, by people not typically depicted in scary movies. Hosts Drea Washington and Tommy Pico dish about what goes bump in the night—from a black/queer/indigenous perspective—and have a damn good time. Produced by Domino Sound. Dropping Sept. 17!! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

THE BOOK OF X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday--school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents--with the surreal--rivers of thighs, men for slae, and fields of throats--Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty. Author Sarah Rose Etter is in conversation with Tommy Pico, author of the books IRL (Birds LLC), Nature Poem (Tin House Books), and Junk (Tin House Books). 

In this terror tidbit, we give you the basic blueprint of season one, how we break down each episode of the show, and a binch I mean pinch of our banter. Don’t get it knotted, gnarled, or twisted: neither nook nor cranny gets spared our scary movie purview. Oh and did we mention? We drop weekly starting September 17th! Produced by Domino Sound @dominosound Theme music by Doc Allison Hoe-sted by Drea Washington and Tommy Pico @heygrlhey @heyteebs In the scary movie of your life? U better Scream, Queen! @screamqueenpodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to function. And Brynn, Milo’s wife— the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with—walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her mother’s art escalates—picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose—and the Mortons reach a tipping point. For the first time, Jessa has no choice but to learn who these people truly are, and ultimately how she fits alongside them. Kristen Arnett’s debut novel is a darkly funny, heart- wrenching, and eccentric look at loss and art and love. Arnett is in conversation with Tommy Pico, author of the books IRL (Birds LLC), Nature Poem (Tin House Books), and Junk (Tin House Books).

Brea and Mallory talk about fancy book extras and interview author Alex Brown! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List   Newsletter   MaxFun Pin Sale     Alex Brown The Hidden History of Napa Valley by Alex Brown Punk-Ass Book Jockey Books Mentioned - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 78 Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack Night Film by Marisha Pessl Scream Site by Justina Ireland The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad All of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

A live reading featuring past Commonplace guests Jericho Brown, Janine Joseph, Erika Meitner, Morgan Parker, Tommy Pico, TC Tolbert, and Yanyi, held in Passages Bookstore in Portland, OR, on March 30, 2019.

Co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf talk with poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico about their respective new works, Magical Negro and Junk. Parker and Pico discuss how they use poetry to explore the experiences of oppressed communities, shuttling between the sublimity and nuance of everyday experiences and the larger cultural and political questions that saturate bodies, spaces and relations. They also talk about how their aesthetic practice has changed as they have moved into writing novels and screenplays.

Co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf talk with poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico about their respective new works, Magical Negro and Junk. Parker and Pico discuss how they use poetry to explore the experiences of oppressed communities, shuttling between the sublimity and nuance of everyday experiences and the larger cultural and political questions that saturate bodies, spaces and relations. They also talk about how their aesthetic practice has changed as they have moved into writing novels and screenplays.

This week, we’re trading in the familiar narratives for some new, previously-unheard ones: a plus-sized coming-of-age story, a pair of young poets of color and a lost classic of black female film making. Plus, a tribute to the late Dick Dale and a new weekly segment, replete with ideas for how to spend your weekend.

This week, Amber (https://theasdzaabeat.com/) and I (https://twitter.com/imogenarate) discuss our respective poems, "TC coincidence? I think not!" and "Do You Recall?" indigenous love, the colonized diet and resilience in the face of trauma and hardship. You can support Amber's work by donating to @Amber-McCrary-2 on Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2324865830879232383 If you're in the Bay Area at the end of March, go see Amber at the Femmes of Color Open Mic (Saturday March 30th, 6pm-9:30pm) at Amor Eterno Arte (1227 18th Ave., Oakland, CA, https://amoreternoarte.com). Here's the link to the Michael Chiago painting (https://www.facebook.com/Michael-Chiago-Sr-Art-300127846779513/) with "purple mountains" and "mango horizon": https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/maven-user-photos/indiancountrytoday/news/8zojDmYqjkuA5Qj5-QAQPw/nXZZjNP8d0Ca365CZoCaiA Here are indigenous poets and writers who inspired Amber: Ofelia Zepeda : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ofelia-zepeda Joy Harjo: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joy-harjo Luci Taphonso: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/luci-tapahonso Layli Longsoldier : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/layli-long-soldier Tommy Pico: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tommy-pico Tommy Orange: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2156371/tommy-orange Natalie Diaz: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/natalie-diaz Take a listen to also find out poetry events taking place in the valley during the week of #March18th. Picture of Amber McCrary (https://www.instagram.com/amberrymccrary/) by Alberta McCrary #Poetrypodcast #ImogenArate #AmberMcCrary #TCcoincidenceIthinknot #DoYouRecall #MichaelChiago #OfeliaZepeda #JoyHarjo #LuciTaphonso #LayliLongsoldier #TommyPico #TommyOrange #NatalieDiaz #FemmesofColorOpenMic #AmorEternoArte #BayArea #Oakland #IndigenousHoneys #ChantiJung #MariaDorsey #FatimahPatrice #MiriamMosqueda #DJMarthaReyna #Dine #Navajo #Oodham #Pima #FirstNation #IndigenousPeoples #HeardMuseum #FirstFridays #boardingschools #residentialschools #Canada #NativePeoplesMagazine #TubaCity #ColonizedDiet #LactoseIntolerance #transgenerationaltrauma #ShiHeart #ShiGirl #cocoonoflove #romanticsop #indigenouslovepoem #RoundDancing #fourcorners #AguasaWaterAwarenessEeventandOpenMic #SonoranDesertWaterAwareness #PalabrasBilingualBookstore #OpenMicforGreatMentalHealth #WordplayCafeStorySlamChampionship #FreddyLopez #Poesiaenvozalta #TheSagrado #astrology #tenderemotions #nurturingemotions #growinguppoor #poverty #PhoenixFirebirdEvents #SavannahLutman #ThirdSpace #QuentonOney #JobotCoffeeandBar #ArtsandCulture #PoetryWritingWorkshop #ConnectandHeal #ChandlerCommunityCenter #KenKong #theundergroundexperience #2601onCentral #LorinDrexler #GenSociety #KeLearningLab #PoeticSoulPhoenix #ClubDowntown #District4poetry #JarrodsCoffeeTeaandGallery #RosemarieDombrowski #NadineLockhart #PhoenixPoetrySeries #FeliciaZamora #JustinPetropoulos #FilmoreCoffeeCompany #MesaArtsCenter #MesaPrototypingProject #MesaUrbanGarden #TheNesbittElliottPlayhouse #TomasJStanton #CreativeCatalysts #TristanMarshell #horses #slavetrade #horseshows #wildnature #huntergathererculture #nomadic

The third book in Tommy Pico’s Teebs trilogy, Junk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing political landscape? In part taking its cue from A.R. Ammons’s Garbage, Teebs names this liminal space “Junk,” in the sense that a junk shop is full of old things waiting for their next use; different items that collectively become indistinct. But can there be a comfort outside the anxiety of utility? An appreciation of “being” for the sake of being? And will there be Chili Cheese Fritos? Pico is in conversation with Joseph Osmundson, a scientist and writer based in New York City.

Almonds, Anchovies and PancettaBy Cal Peternell Intro: Welcome to the Cookery by the book podcast with Suzy Chase. She's just a home cook in New York City sitting at her dining room table talking to cookbook authors. Cal Peternell: My name's Cal Peternell and I'm the author of most recently, "Almonds, Anchovies and Pancetta." I also wrote "12 Recipes" and "A Recipe for Cooking," and I'm the host of the "Cooking by Ear" podcast. Suzy Chase: Growing up in the late '70's and early '80's, it's my understanding that meat was the center of the American plate. I mean the message, beef, it's what for dinner got drummed into our heads. Talk about the idea of being vegetable focused.Cal Peternell: You know, if you go farther back than that, because I know what you're talking in the beef, it's what for dinner campaign and all that. But if you go farther back, all the way back, people have been eating this way for a long time. Where they eat a lot of vegetables, grains, greens, beans and they use a little bit of the right kind of meat, mostly cured pork or cured fish, to add a little flavor to it. And also, it's an economical way to eat, where you don't have to have a big roast, you can have just a little smoked pork, like a ham hock or something like that, that you throw in with the greens or a little bit of cured anchovies that you put in your salad or you put ... So that you can feed a lot of people with a lot of vegetables and just add that little extra deliciousness with a small amount of the right kind of meat. And it's really the way that I like to eat and my family likes to eat now. And I think a lot of people like to eat that way.It's not that we're vegetarians, it's just that we really love vegetables and we want to eat a lot of them.Suzy Chase: Take me through the thought process of narrowing down this cookbook to three main ingredients.Cal Peternell: Well, I always had this fantasy about opening a restaurant that would be called Anchovies and Pancetta because those would be the only kinds of meat that were served there. That we'd be doing, like I say, lots of vegetables and salads and stuff and just be seasoning them with the meats like that. And I was actually at an event in New York at the 92nd Street Y, and I was talking about that and I said maybe I could write a cookbook like that and my editor and agent were both in the audience and they both perked up and we talked about it afterwards and we came up with this idea that we could come up with a book that had three chapters for each of those ingredients, so it's almonds, anchovies and pancetta. And I guess the way I chose them is there's more than those three ingredients flavoring the dishes in this book. So there's almonds in the almond chapter, but also other kinds of nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts. And in the anchovy chapter there's also things like bottarga and shaved bonito and fish sauce and of course in the pancetta chapter there's all kinds of cured pork. But those are the ones that I use the most to deliver a little extra fat. Of course, anchovies and pancetta deliver salt as well. But there's something more that they bring, because you could just add salt. I've come to believe that they represent a certain amount of time and also if you think about in a way as sort of like an artifact of the time that it took for it to either grow on the tree or the fish to reach maturity in the ocean or the livestock, the pork, the pigs on the farm. But then if you cure fish or pork, there's extra time that's going into it. It's sort of a short cut, because I love to do long cook dishes, like last night I cooked a pork shoulder and I seasoned it the day before and then I brought it to room temperature for a couple of hours and then I braised it for a couple hours and I love that. But you don't always have time for that. So by using these ingredients that already kind of, one of the things that they have in them in addition to salt is time. Not the herb, but actual hours. And so you're kind of short cutting. You're getting that depth of flavor that you might get from long cooking, but you're just doing it in the moment, because that pancetta has already got the time in it. That gives it that depth.Suzy Chase: Speaking of salt, you say cooking is so much about salt. Why is that?Cal Peternell: Well, these ingredients, of course, the nuts aside, there's so many things are considered delicious delicacies now that are born out of the ability to use salt to preserve food. So that when you have an abundant catch, you eat all the fish you can right now, but you can't eat it all now, so you have to figure out a way to make it last, in case tomorrow there's no fishing in that. And salt is what allows you to do that. And the same with pork. There's a scene that I've always loved from "Grapes of Wrath," when the Joad family is packing up their farm and getting ready to head west and they have a couple of pigs and they slaughter them and they keep the chunks of meat and they pack them in these barrels full of salt. And then they roast the rest of it. The ribs and the bones and the stuff that won't really work being salted and they just have a feast of pork. But they can't eat it all, so they pack it in salt and bring it with them and eat it over the months on the road. And I feel like that, salt is what makes that kind of thing possible and these foods that we all love, things like baklava and umeboshi and on and on, were born out of that kind of planning ahead, being sort of thrifty and they only can happen because of salt. I think also then, on a flavor level, salt, as my friend Samine says, salt makes things taste more like what they are.Suzy Chase: Yep.Cal Peternell: It sort of emphasizes their own innate flavor and I think that sometimes people are a little shy about salt, about using salt. Or they feel like they're not that confident, they don't know quite how to use it. Which leads one to my one rule about cooking, which is that you always need to taste your food and one of the things you're often tasting for is salt. Suzy Chase: I just got maldon salt. What's the one way you use maldon? Because I'm not sure exactly what to do with it.Cal Peternell: Yeah, I think maldon is great. I love maldon salt. I actually kind of ... you've probably done this too. You frame one of those beautiful little pyramids and you do a snack on it.Suzy Chase: That's the only thing I've done with it.Cal Peternell: Yeah. I mean, maldon of course, you're not going to throw a handful of maldon salt into your pasta water because it's all about the texture of those little crystals. It's a finishing thing and I think, I like to put it on, like if you were ... Hard boiled eggs is a great place to put it. If you butter a piece of bread and put a slice of radish on it, like french style, that's a great place for that kind of salt. And there's maldon, there's other salts that are being produced like that now. They're about the texture, so you want to use it in a place where you're going to notice that texture. So just finishing things and also, it's quite beautiful, so you want to be able to see it.Suzy Chase: So I'm always striving to become a more instinctive cook. How can this cookbook help us home cooks with that?Cal Peternell: What I try and do with my cookbooks is set a tone that allows you to relax and really cook and I really try to be not too demanding of my reader. I find some cookbooks, even ones that I really admire, there can sometimes be this kind of demand for ... you have to have the right piece of equipment or have to have just the very best ingredients that can sometimes actually be a barrier to cooking. So I always say, you should cook with what you have now. You should think about those ingredients and think like, you know, I should try and get better turnips, these were okay, but next time I'm going to ... I saw those really beautiful ones at the farmer's market I'm going to try and get those or if you only ... so many dishes start with onions, carrots and celery and if you're missing the carrot, it doesn't mean you shouldn't go ahead and cook with onions and celery. But you should think about like, what does the carrot bring to it? What am I missing here and maybe next time I should add some carrots. They last a long time in the fridge, I'll just make sure I have them. Likewise with equipment. If all you have is a thin aluminum pan, it doesn't mean you shouldn't cook dinner tonight, but you should start looking when you're at the flea market next time for some nice cast iron that's going to make you a better cook. And as far as being ... I think that also, I often offer alternatives to ingredients. If you don't have this, you could use this. Or if you don't ... In this book, if you don't love anchovies, than honestly I think if you think that you don't love anchovies, you actually do love anchovies, you just haven't really had them the right way. You can use the almonds often in the place of those. So I think being instinctual cook comes down to ... The honest truth is you have to cook a lot. You have to find the pleasure in cooking that will encourage you to keep cooking and that will eventually make you a better and more instinctual cook, because you've already done it before and you're remembering, oh yeah, the other time when I did this it worked that way so it'll probably work that way again. Or it didn't work out and so this time I should to do it a little bit differently. I don't think people should cook a recipe just once, I think they should cook it a couple of times until they feel like they kind of really get what's happening with that combination of ingredients.Suzy Chase: In the almond section you have a recipe for almond butter and cucumber sandwiches with shallots. Describe this and why is this recipe personal and private for you?Cal Peternell: I think we all have our guilty snacks, our guilty pleasure thing that maybe we don't ... we try to run out of the store before anyone sees us with it in our hands. I have mine. They're salty snacks, I won't say exactly what they are, but-Suzy Chase: Cheez It's?Cal Peternell: Yeah, it's something like that. Suzy Chase: Okay, go on.Cal Peternell: But then we also we have that thing. I don't know if you have it, but definitely these things that, especially when I'm working and I'm by myself and I'm just hungry and I go in the kitchen and I start looking around. And those little sandwiches came out of that. Out of having that combination of ingredients and just thinking, oh that could come together in a really great way that would satisfy what I need right now. Some nice bread, I like to use the dense, grainy bread that I think of as being more Northern European kind of bread and either toasted or not. Spread it with some nice almond butter. A couple slices of cucumbers, a little bit of shallots or scallions that you squeeze a little lemon or lime juice so it tempers them a little bit and you put that on top there and it's like a little open faced sandwich. It's the kind of thing that it felt like, oh this is my snack and nobody else would really go for this, that combination of things. But then I started to think, you know, actually I think probably everybody has something like this. And so, I included that in the book, not only because I think it's delicious and I think other people might too. But just to encourage people to try to get back that instinctive thing that's ... And something we talk about on the podcast is we think people have gateway dishes that they're afraid to cook. They feel like they don't have the instinct for it. But if you can show them that one thing that they can make and have success with, it can give them the confidence to like, oh if I could make that little sandwich that good, maybe next time I could do something more with it. Or, you know, it's not that far off from another dish. That I should try that. And you build on that and your confidence grows and you become better. Suzy Chase: Yeah. I think a lot of cooking is confidence.Cal Peternell: Yeah. And I think every time I take a lift, you know ride, I always ask my driver, do you cook? And a lot of times they'll say now and I push and I'm like, well really? Because it's hard for me to imagine someone who never cooks anything. And you know, usually they'll admit, they might say, yeah no, I don't cook. And I'm like what about toast? Do you make toast? And most people will admit that they do. And I feel like, that's cooking. That's a step. In my first book in 12 Recipes, the first chapter is about toast, because we've all had toast, it's just okay, and then you also, hopefully you've had that time where you're like, oh my god, this is something really different. And it might be because the bread was really great of it might be because someone swiped a clove of garlic over it and poured on some delicious olive oil. Or it might be just because you're really hungry. But thinking about what you're ... Being attentive to what you're doing. Being present with the ingredients that you have, I think can start to give you that confidence of like oh, I get it. I get what's happening here in the kitchen and can lead to more confidence and eventually to a certain amount of innovation.Suzy Chase: So moving on to the anchovies section, you have a recipe for artichokes and new onions baked with anchovies and bread crumbs. Talk about how you and Russell Moore used to make this dish together at Chez Panisse.Cal Peternell: Russ and I go way back. We were chefs together at Chez Panisse for many years. And we also would cook a lot together at my house or his house with friends. There was something that would happen when he and I would cook. And there's a few other friends who are cooks that this same kind of synergy happens where we know each other well enough. We've cooked together well enough that we truly collaborate and kind of flowed together. It's almost like, I don't know if this sounds goofy but it's a little bit like a dance. Sometimes we don't have to talk too much, we just kind of have this thing where we're really on the same page and if you've ever had that kind of an experience of crafting something together with someone, it can be kind of profound and really comforting in a way. That you have a kindred spirit. And in the book I talk about how my wife and I cook together and I guess we have something similar, but she ... It's not really her thing. I mean, she likes to be with me and we like to chat while she's spinning the lettuce and I'm making the vinaigrette or whatever. There's just something more that happens with someone who's really on the same page with you. And that's a recipe that Russ and I came up with when we were still cooking at Chez Panisse and we just wanted to make this little bundles of ... you know. It was spring, the artichokes were beautiful, the new onions were amazing. I don't know if you are familiar with new onions, but they kind of look like a giant scallion.Suzy Chase: Yes.Cal Peternell: They're just a great thing to eat raw, to fry, to roast. They work so many ways and they're really lovely too, sometimes they're kind purple. So we roast the onions, we cook the artichokes and we curled the onion around the artichoke and put a little bit of anchovy on there and some bread crumbs. Of course, we put lots of olive oil and baked it and you know, bread crumbs and anchovies all kind of come together and there was like this little loose bundles that we served with grilled lamb. But they're great any way. They do take a little bit of work because there's artichokes involved and whenever you're cooking with artichokes there's a certain amount of prep. But it's totally worth it and the season for them is coming up. You know spring time is when those ingredients are at their best.Suzy Chase: So you mentioned your wife, Kathleen Henderson, who's an artist. And I'm going to read a blurb from "Art in America." It says Henderson's scenarios generally take place against a stark background of blank white paper. That made me think of you plating food on a blank white plate. Do your artistic styles converge at all?Cal Peternell: They do. And maybe not though in the way you might expect. It's interesting that you point that out, the white plate, white paper thing, because I do think that ... it just makes me think about ... It's something I said to Alice Waters when I was still at Chez Panisse and when we travel we'd eat in all the restaurants that are getting the buzz and stuff. And I came back from a trip one time and I said Alice, I think the fact that we're just putting food on a regular flat ceramic plate is an incredible innovation right now, because if you're eating at these places where food is served on a stone or a log or a little dish that you carry and you have to hold in your hand and pull the pin before you eat it or someone's spraying bubbles at you. I ate a dessert one time that was served on a pillow full of lavender smoke. So it's funny to think about food being just served on a plate and what that's like. No one's doing that.Suzy Chase: So for the pancetta section of the book, I made your recipe for brusselsssprouts with pancetta, ginger and cilantro on page 147. Cal Peternell: Oh, great.Suzy Chase: So let's talk about that dish. Cal Peternell: Yeah.Suzy Chase: First, can you describe it?Cal Peternell: I came up with this recipe for brussels sprouts that includes a little pancetta. You could use bacon too. But that it brings in some Asian flavors like ginger, cilantro and basically you roast the brussels sprouts. If they're big, which they usually are, a little bit too big to roast whole, I cut them in half, I toss them with a little oil and salt, put them in a nice hot oven. Sometimes you got to splash a little water on the tray if things are starting to get too dark before they get cooked through, because to me, I want them to cooked all the way. I don't want to be crunching so much on them. And then you just saute a little bit of pancetta, like I said you could also use bacon and in fact, if you were vegan, you could use almonds here for vegetarian. You cook the pancetta a little bit. You throw in a little bit of ginger, let that sizzle. Maybe do this thing that I love to do with herbs, so many times herbs are added right at the end, but cooking herbs in the pan does an amazing thing. It kind of infuses the flavor into the fat that you're using. It also fats the color. So I throw in a good handful of cilantro and let it sizzle in there with the pancetta and ginger and then throw the brussel sprouts that are already cooked in. Toss it around. Squeeze on lime juice. Taste it, see if it needs a little more lime juice. And that's it. And it's kind of, it's both familiar but also a little exotic because it's got a little ginger and cilantro. How did yours come out?Suzy Chase: It was amazing. I'm going to make it for Christmas. Cal Peternell: Oh yeah? Good, perfect. Yep.Suzy Chase: The cilantro and the ginger is so unexpected. You just don't, you're like, what is that, oh my gosh.Cal Peternell: Excellent. I'm so glad to hear that. And it looks nice too, right? It's sort of-Suzy Chase: It's so pretty.Cal Peternell: Yeah. And you could put a little, I don't know if it's in the recipe, I don't think it is. But you know, like so many things, a little bit of hot pepper flakes if you want something a little spicy would be nice in there too. Suzy Chase: So, you have a podcast that I adore called "Cooking by Ear." Can you tell us about it?Cal Peternell: So "Cooking by Ear" is a podcast that my partner, Kristina Loring, my podcast partner and I came up with. We had this intention to find a way to make a podcast that could teach you to cook. That you could actually cook along with in real time. And I called my guests or I'd send them email and we'd agree on ... and I asked them, what would you like me to teach you to cook? And we come up with a dish that works in the time that we have and I show up at their house and the guest is sort of a proxy for the listening audience, because we felt like we need to make it ... I have so many years of experience cooking and I can get a little too chefy maybe sometimes. Like with the books, I wanted to be very approachable and inclusive. And so having a guest who's not a professional cook brings me back to the level of the lay person who's cooking along. They keep me in line a little bit if I'm going too fast or if I'm not explaining something enough. So we get ourselves set and when you download the episode of "Cooking by Ear," you also get an ingredients list, a shopping list. So when you have your ingredients together and you're in the kitchen and you got air puffs and fans and you're ready to go, you hit play, and you cook along with us in real time. The episodes are 40 to 50 minutes. For example, the first episode was with the actress, Frances McDormand, who's just wonderful and funny. So we went to her house and while we cut the onions you cut the onions. And then while the onions are cooking, it takes a little while, so we talked to Fran about how she decided to be a pig in "Mom" or we talk about how her husband, Joel Coen, loves to make pies. And then when the onions are done and we start cooking the risotto you do the same. And then while simmering along we talked to Fran about the way her mother would make these salads or whatever. And at the end of it, you're cooking along with us, of course you can hit pause if you're timing is off or if you get called away for something for a second. But the idea is, 45 minutes later, you've not only heard these funny stories about Frances McDormand and got to sort of get to know in a more intimate way because you're in her kitchen with us. But you also have a pot of risotto done and you've learned to make it. I don't know if you've heard the one with Fran, but it's hilarious and there's a lot of other ones that are really funny and sometimes sad and poignant. And worth a listen. Suzy Chase: I did. I loved that she gave you a tour of her kitchen. So in my head I have this visual of her kitchen.Cal Peternell: Yeah, yeah. And she showed us some of her favorite plates and things like that.Suzy Chase: Yeah. Uh huh.Cal Peternell: Yeah, and we've been really lucky and for me, I've learned as much from our guests as hopefully they have learned from me. But we've been really lucky with getting amazing people to join us in the kitchen and I found that when you are around food and you're eating and you're cooking, you have a task, that it opens a door a little wider into people's lives. In season one, we also cooked with the amazing poet, Tommy Pico. Director Mira Nair who made "Mississippi Masala" and "Monsoon Wedding." We cooked with Alexander Payne who made "Sideways" and "Downsizing." He was really hilarious. We went to New Orleans and switched the format up a little bit and the hip hop artist, Big Freedia showed us how to make her booty pop and potatoes, which was-Suzy Chase: Okay, stop. What else did she show you how to do?Cal Peternell: She gave me a lesson, I'm not going to say that she taught me how to twerk, because I absolutely cannot twerk. Suzy Chase: Oh my god.Cal Peternell: She gave me a twerking lesson and I can tell you, she summed it up ... actually she got very excited because she said that we gave her a new hook for a song.Suzy Chase: Yeah, then she had to write it down.Cal Peternell: Yeah, she ran and wrote it down and she ran and told the boyfriend that she just got it and goes like this. You put your hands on your hip and you arch you back. You put your booty in the air and you shake it like. Or twerk it like that. And it turns out I can't really get low enough. I need to do much more Pilates or something in order to deal with it.Suzy Chase: Squats?Cal Peternell: In order to be able to twerk right. Have you ever tried to do it?Suzy Chase: No. Cal Peternell: No. Yeah. I thought like, oh my god, I'm going to hurt myself, they're going to have call 911.Suzy Chase: Throw something out. Well I think it's great. There are so many food podcasts out there just talking about food. But I think it's so brilliant that you're in the kitchen and we can hear your conversation and the cooking sounds. I love it. So that takes me to my segment called my last meal.Cal Peternell: Yeah.Suzy Chase: What would you order for your last supper?Cal Peternell: I was thinking about this and it's a dish that I've been a little bit obsessed with and I'm not alone and it's spaghetti cacio e pepe. Do you know cacio e pepe?Suzy Chase: Yeah. You know it's funny, I interviewed a cookbook author yesterday and she said the very same thing. Cal Peternell: Okay, well that's because it's the most delicious and comforting. I would demand that it's spaghetti cacio e pepe and it's made with one very, very long strand of spaghetti that just goes on and on and on. And I would slurp it up slowly. Suzy Chase: Never ending.Cal Peternell: And I'd ask for a glass of cheap red wine to go with it. Suzy Chase: Where can we find you on the web, social media and where can we find your podcast?Cal Peternell: My website is calpeternell.com. On social media I'm @calpeternell, one word. And the podcast is available everywhere you get your podcast, Apple Podcast, Stitcher, you know, all the podcast places.Suzy Chase: Wonderful. Well thanks so much Cal for coming on "Cookery by the Book" podcast.Cal Peternell: Yeah, thanks for having me, it's been a real pleasure.Outro: Follow Suzy Chase on Instagram at cookery by the book and subscribe at cookerybythebook.com or in Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening to "Cookery by the Book" podcast, the only podcast devoted to cookbooks since 2015.

Tommy Pico is the guest. A poet, performer, and screenwriter, he is the author of the poetry collections IRL (Birds, LLC), NATURE POEM, JUNK, and the forthcoming FEED (Tin House Books).  A Whiting Award winner, Pico is originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation. He now divides his time between Los Angeles and 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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello confess to how bad they are at “letting go;” poet Tommy Pico explains how writing as his alter ego "Teebs" allows him to be less self-censoring in his work; journalist Eli Saslow discusses Derek Black – the subject of his new book "Rising Out of Hatred" – and how the once-heir to the white nationalist movement made a stunning transformation; comedian Emily Heller spins gut-busting analogies to online dating; and indie rock duo The Helio Sequence perform “Lately” from their album “Keep Your Eyes Ahead.”

“Reading Tommy Pico’s Junk I kept thinking of Heather McHugh’s pronouncement that the main discipline of poetry is “to keep finding life strange.” Pico is the master of making the stone stony, or returning the sheer absurdity of being to everything, from grief to intimacy to dating apps to donuts. Junk insists on the urgency […] The post Tommy Pico : Junk appeared first on Tin House.

On this episode we got to interview Danny Caine, owner of The Raven Bookstore! Along with owning a bookstore, Danny is also a published poet, a brand new dad, a dog person with 3 cats, and an all-around good human. Learn what's going on in the Lawrence bookish community this fall and how one boy's chicken nugget obsession turned into a... grown man's chicken nugget obsession.  Show Notes: https://lplks.org/blogs/post/029-chicken-nuggets-and-poetry-with-danny-caine-the-raven-bookstore Danny will have two books coming out in the next two years (NBD RIGHT?) - Continental Breakfast by Mason Jar Press in March 2019 and El Dorado Freddy's in Spring 2020 (side-note: "Ell-doh-RAY-doh")  The Raven Bookstore website & FB Events Sept 9: Kansas Book Festival, official bookseller Sept 18: Free State Festival Ideas Speaker: Craig Johnson Sept 20: Free State Festival Ideas Speaker: Author Michelle Tea Sept 21: Atlas Obscura | Kansas Edition Sept 25: Sarah Smarsh: Heartland Oct 10: Tommy Pico and Morgan Parker Feb 5: Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo Mar 5: Hieu Minh Nguyen --------------------------- Twice(-ish) a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond. This episode was produced by Jim Barnes in the Sound & Vision studio. Our theme song is by Heidi Lynne Gluck. You can find the Book Squad Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud. Please subscribe and leave us comments – we’d love to know what you think, and your comments make it easier for other people to find our podcast. Happy reading and listening! xo, Polli & Kate

The 6th installment of "I Don't Think So, Honey!" Live is here! 50 comedians take one minute each to go off on culture. Part One featuring Greta Titelman, Myka Fox, Patti Harrison, Amy Zimmer, Rosebud Baker, Kevin Allison, Desmond Thorne, Josh Gondelman, Julio Torres, Catherine Cohen, Rebecca Vigil, Zach Zimmerman, Peter Valenti, Kathleen Armenti, Steven Polletta, Akilah Hughes, Rebecca O'Neal, Wanjiko Eke, Eva Victor, Matt Bellassai, Tommy Pico, Fran Tirado, Joseph Osmundson, Dennis Norris II, and Las Culturistas Icon Award Winner Pat Regan. Recorded Live at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY --- LAS CULTURISTAS HAS A PATREON! For $5/month, you get exclusive access to WEEKLY Patreon-ONLY Las Culturistas content!! https://www.patreon.com/lasculturistas SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS TODAY! CONNECT W/ LAS CULTURISTAS ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER for the best in "I Don't Think So, Honey" action, updates on live shows, conversations with the Las Culturistas community, and behind-the scenes photos/videos: www.facebook.com/lasculturistas twitter.com/lasculturistas LAS CULTURISTAS IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST foreverdogpodcasts.com/las-culturistas  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Sudsy soda salutations my Junky sussers! This week we’ve got a show recorded variously at the alpha and omega of it all, the Tin House Summer Workshop! Our all-star line-up this week consists of Danez Smith, Alexander Chee, and Jenna Wortham talking all about the world building inherent in our Junk. Sometimes we use Junk to orient ourselves to the world around us, fill our world with reflections of us, and bring our world with us wherever we go. Followed up with a particularly saucy excerpt from Junk the long poem. Brought to you as always by Tin House Books. Check out our Instagram to see all these lovely ppls *Junk* each week tee hee @junkpodcast Danez Smith, @Danez_Smif Alexander Chee, @alexanderchee Jenna Wortham, @jennydeluxe Tommy Pico, host @heyteebs Alexandra DiPalma, Producer @LSDiPalma Kenya Anderson, Production Assistant @kenya_digg_it

Author Rebecca Makkai joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf to discuss her heralded new novel, The Great Believers, which tells two parallel and inter-related stories: one of the AIDS epidemic ravaging the Chicago gay community in the 1980s; the other, set in Paris in 2015, about a woman, Fiona, searching for her daughter, who has joined a cult. The connection is Fiona, who had become a caretaker for the men dying 30 years earlier in Chicago. Rebecca explains how she arrived at such a complex narrative structure (hint: it wasn't how the project started); as well as how she struggled with issues of cultural appropriation versus historical alliance. Also, Jenny Zhang, author of Sour Heart, returns to recommend the work of Tommy Pico, in particular his new book-length poem, Junk.

Rachel Zucker speaks with poet Tommy Pico about his first three books: IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk. Pico talks about epic cycles, the birdsong, growing up on a Kumeyaay reservation, becoming a poet, the culture shock and class shock of going to college in the Northeast, deciding not to go to medical school, training himself to become a performer, his influences and the teachers who helped him stop taking the easy way out and write longer work, learning to write no matter what, letting his voice open up, going from being unknown except in the world of local readings and zines to a headliner reading to a packed house, the craft, form and function of his books, the importance of being alone, the reason he loves long poems, experiments in screenwriting, genre, traveling for work, his podcast Food 4 Thot and so much more.

Brooklyn-based journalist Harron Walker (Jezebel, Vice, BuzzFeed, Vulture) interviews some of her favorite people to find out why she keeps doing this thing (men) that makes her feel bad.

2018 Whiting Award-winning poet Tommy Pico author of IRL, Nature Poem and Junk (forthcoming in 2018) cracks an egg for the first time in his life (!!!) to make a frittata perfect for “the morning after.” We discuss everything from hookups to the role of food in control on the Viejas Reservation he grew up on.COOK ALONG AS YOU LISTEN. YOU'LL NEED:Ingredients:1 big bunch of chard Cooking oil, olive or vegetable Salt2-3 cups of leftover spaghetti (preferably with some remnants of red sauce) 6 eggsGround black pepper1/2 cup of grated Parmesan cheeseTOOLS:Big bowl to wash chard in (and a colander to drain it)Cast iron skillet or another non-stick skilletWhiskLarge plate (large enough to serve as a cover for your pan)Cheese graterMedium mixing bowlWooden spoon or spatulaTongs

2018 Whiting Award-winning poet Tommy Pico author of IRL, Nature Poem and Junk (forthcoming in 2018) cracks an egg for the first time in his life (!!!) to make a frittata perfect for “the morning after.” We discuss everything from hookups to the role of food in control on the Viejas Reservation he grew up on.COOK ALONG AS YOU LISTEN. YOU'LL NEED:Ingredients:1 big bunch of chard Cooking oil, olive or vegetable Salt2-3 cups of leftover spaghetti (preferably with some remnants of red sauce) 6 eggsGround black pepper1/2 cup of grated Parmesan cheeseTOOLS:Big bowl to wash chard in (and a colander to drain it)Cast iron skillet or another non-stick skilletWhiskLarge plate (large enough to serve as a cover for your pan)Cheese graterMedium mixing bowlWooden spoon or spatulaTongs

This week on 'State of Wonder,' we bring you the second show we recorded live at Wordstock, this time with the culture writer Chuck Klosterman, who pulls back the curtain on his celebrity profiles, and two ace authors, who discuss their thrilling new novels.Want more books? Check out the first show we recorded at Wordstock this year, with the creators of the hit podcast and novels "Welcome to Night Vale" and the seriously hilarious poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico.Chuck Klosterman Explains the 21st Century of Pop Culture - 1:26What do Taylor Swift, Tim Tebow, and the search for free will in “Breaking Bad” have in common? They are all pop culture casualties of Chuck Closterman, one the keenest critical minds writing today. Growing up in North Dakota, Klosterman cut his teeth in the Midwest before heading to New York to write for the “New York Times,” “GQ,” “Grantland,” and practically everyone else. His 2003 essay collection “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-Culture Manifesto” launched him into the culture writing stratosphere, and he’s published several collections and two novels since. Now he’s out with his tenth book: “Chuck Closterman Ten: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century.” He takes us behind the scenes on his essays, plus talks about his recent move to Portland.Katie Kitamura's Psychodrama About a Wife's Search for Her Husband - 19:27In a landscape scorched by wildfire and summer sun, a woman, frozen with grief, comes searching for her estranged husband. Death of their marriage muffles her like a thick veil; she can barely see what’s going on around her. So begins Katie Kitamura’s elegant, suspenseful novel, “A Separation.” It’s a great read for the dank winter days, full with burned landscapes and arid Mediterranean atmosphere.Hannah Tinti's Coming of Age Mystery - 33:52Every parent is a mystery to their child. But few bear the secrets of Samuel Hawley. His scarred body maps out a life of theft, guns and murder, but for his daughter Loo, they’re just scars. That is, until they settle into the New England hometown of her deceased mother and she begins to question her father’s past and what truly happened to her mom. Such is the central mystery for Hannah Tinti’s second novel, “The Twelve Lives of Samuel Holly.” Ann Patchett called it “one part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade, and twelve parts wild innovation.”Tinti is one of those gloriously creative writers, whose plots sparkle with suspense and emotion. Her best-selling debut novel, “The Good Thief,” was an American Tall Tale of sorts, starring an orphan and a con man at odds with a mouse trap magnate. Tinti also co-founded and edits the the award-winning magazine “One Story.”

Wordstock — Portland's book festival — is that most wonderful of days, when Oregonians’ book lust reaches a fever pitch, culminating in increased secret police presence at book signings, reader mobs storming the gates of Powell’s, and more mayhem.We talked to a slew of fantastic authors at this year's event: Tom Perrotta, Katie Kitamura, Chuck Klosterman, and more. We'll serve these up on our podcast in the coming weeks, but for now, feast on this live show, recorded at noon with four writers on the vanguard."Welcome to Night Vale" with Creators Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph FinkFor the past five years, the creators of the runaway hit podcast, "Welcome to Night Vale" have spun tales of a fictional Southwestern desert town, where people live side by side with the supernatural. Hooded figures, shadowy government agencies, and ravenous ghosts abound— but also girl scouts, coffeehouses, and a community radio station. “Night Vale” is about finding humanity, seated right there next to unspeakable horror at the local diner, enjoying pie and coffee. Its creators have taken Night Vale to the page with a a second novel, "It Devours." It's the story of a young scientist trying to unravel the town's mysteries, and decipher her own outsider status. We talked to Fink and Cranor about the novel, the podcast series, and the Night Vale live shows. Just how popular are those staged events? The next Nightvale live show in Portland is scheduled at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, which seats 2700 people.Poets Tommy Pico and Morgan Parker - 27:11The authors of two of the most anticipated poetry books of the year just so happen to be dear friends. Morgan Parker’s poems have appeared in the “Paris Review,” the “New York Times,” and “Best American Poetry,” and have won her Pushcart and Gatewood prizes. Her new book is “There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce.”Tommy Pico is the author of “IRL” and the zine series “Hey, Teebs,” a Lambda Literary Fellow, and co-host of the podcast “Food 4 Thot.” His new book is “Nature Poem." Together, they curate the reading series Poets with Attitude in New York City.“We were tired of being the only person on a bill who cared that the audience was there.” - Tommy Pico on State of WonderBoth their books were published by Tin House, the bi-coastal publisher split between Portland and Brooklyn.

Tommy Pico talks about growing up on a Native American reservation, trying to tame the English language with his poetry, and why labeling himself as an “NDN” is a powerful act of reclamation. He also talks about how people often don’t know enough about indigenous people to be able to stereotype them, and then he […]

  Nature Poem (Tin House Books) Nature Poem follows Teebs―a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet―who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant―bratty, even―about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice. Praise for Nature Poem “I love this work. Unpredictable & sweet & strong...” —Eileen Myles “A thrilling punk rock epic that is a tour of all we know and can't admit to. Pico is a poet of canny instincts, his lyric is somehow so casual and so so serious at the same time. He is determined to blow your mind apart, and . . . you should let him.”—Alexander Chee *A Most Anticipated Book of 2017 at Publishers Weekly, Buzzfeed, and more.*Tommy "Teebs" Pico is the author of Nature Poem (Tin House Books), IRL(Birds LLC), and the zine series Hey, Teebs. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and a 2016 Tin House summer poetry scholar. 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, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.  Melissa Broder is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Last Sext (Tin House Books). She is also the author of the essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the Iowa Review, Tin House, Guernica, Fence, the Missouri Review, and the Awl among others. Broder lives in Venice, California.

Monday Reading Series Tommy “Teebs” Pico is a poet from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation. He authored the books IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk, & myriad keen Tweets including “Love in the time of climate change.” He is co-curator of the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, and co-host of the podcast Food 4 Thot. His Myers-Briggs is IDGAF. @heyteebs Sasha Smith is a Poetry Project 2016-2017 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow. She is currently studying literature at NYU's School of Professional Studies. She is a native Bronx resident and cofounder of the Bronx Blaqlist, a community arts organization. Her poetry can be found in Poet's Country No. 1 as of January 2017. Prior to publication in NYU's Literary Journal Dovetail, her work has been published by CUNY's Literary and Arts Journal Thesis. She is currently working on a project about gentrification in the Bronx, and the voices of Mount Everest. She ‘blogs' at http://stesseract.com.

SURPRISE BINCHES! Season 1 ain’t over quite yet. We have an extra delectable bite for you — the recording of our LIVE show at Ace Hotel in New York muthafuckin’ City. We packed the house to celebrate the fact that Tommy Pico dropped is book Nature Poem like a hot lil’ cake. Plus, local celebrity Angel Nafis joins us for this episode. We now come with a laugh track, and bb, we’re never going back. Also, we write our own gay smut — friction fiction, if you will — we discuss Tommy’s levels of slutty genius, and we end Season 1 (for realz this time) with a hot take from the ineffable Angel. We have big ol’ plans for Season 2, but for now subscribe to our newsletter for periodic updates and thotty mini features: food4thotpodcast.com/newsletter Live tweet the episode: twitter.com/food4thotpod Troll us on Facebook: facebook.com/food4thotpod Angel: twitter.com/angelnafis Joe: twitter.com/reluctantlyjoe Tommy: twitter.com/heyteebs Fran: twitter.com/fransquishco Release date: 11 June 2017 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Humor lays the groundwork for a hard truth and, for poet Tommy Pico, that hard truth is about living as an indigenous person in occupied America. "Alien invasion overlord movies / r cute in a Monet way,” he writes. “I survive seven generations into a post-apocalyptic America / that started 1492. Maybe / you'll live too?" There are, he says, just a few images of Native Americans that have filtered into mainstream culture: the noble savage, the squaw, the horseback warrior, and the sad Indian, “whose religion and spirituality and land and resources and livelihood have been taken away from them. I want to write in defiance of the sad Indian.” Pico's poetry builds a contemporary Native American persona, one that occupies multiple spaces simultaneously: New York City, the internet, pop music, and Grindr. It's an identity that's determined to be heard by the culture at large. Tellingly, Pico's first book, IRL, is both in the form of a single epic text — maybe even a sext — and inspired by Kumeyaay “bird songs,” some of the last surviving remnants of the Kumeyaay tribe's long-form poetry tradition. In this episode, you'll also hear Organist fan fiction from Jimmy Chen, performed by the legendary Edgar Oliver, as well as a series of “verbal selfies” from artist Robyn O'Neil. Feature image of Tommy Pico by Eugene Smith for Poets & Writers Magazine. Robyn O'Neil, "The Everywhere Citadel", 2016. Graphite on paper 60 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches Robyn O'Neil, "Ascension", 2016. Graphite on paper 22 3/4 x 30 inches Robyn O'Neil, "Suffocation Bed", 2013. Graphite on paper 23 x 30 inches Robyn O'Neil, "Inflation Drill (after Guston)", 2016. Graphite on paper 22 3/4 x 30 inches Robyn O'Neil, "The Husband Cathedral", 2016. Graphite on paper 34 1/8 x 60 1/4 inches Robyn O'Neil, "The Mercy Quartet", 2016. Graphite on paper 34 1/8 x 60 inches Robyn O'Neil, "Studies in Suffocation I", 2016. Graphite on paper 60 1/4 x 66 inches Robyn O'Neil, "Studies in Suffocation II", 2016. Graphite on paper 60 1/4 x 66 3/16 inches Robyn O'Neil, "Government Bureau (after Tooker)", 2016. Graphite on paper 22 3/4 x 30 inches Robyn O'Neil, "These Moments", 2016. Graphite on paper 10 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches Robyn O'Neil, "The Five Echoes", 2016. Graphite on paper 15" x 12 1/8 inches Robyn O'Neil, "Ultralight Beam Terzetto", 2016. Graphite on paper 41 1⁄2 x 63 inches

Colson Whitehead on his National Book Award–winning novel, The Underground Railroad, and writing after the election. Plus readings by Roxane Gay, Ocean Vuong, Safiya Sinclair, and Tommy Pico.

Welcome to Episode 11 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we skip our usual segment of "What's on Your Mind?" to talk about names, phases, brands, publishing, & so much more with genius poet Morgan Parker. As always, you can reach us at emailthepoetrygods@gmail.com. We are looking to book shows for Fall 2016. Bring The Poetry gods to your campus! MORGAN PARKER BIO: Morgan Parker is the author of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her second collection, There Are More Beautiful things than Beyonce, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in February 2017. Morgan received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in numerous publications, as well as anthologized in Why I Am Not A Painter (Argos Books), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow, Morgan lives with her dog Braeburn in Brooklyn, NY. She works as an Editor for Amazon Publishing's imprint Little A and Day One. She also teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She is a Sagittarius. Follow Morgan Parker on twitter: @morganapple on instagram: @morganapple0 Follow The Poetry Gods on all social media: @jayohessee, @azizabarnes, @iamjonsands, @thepoetrygods & CHECK OUR WEBSITE: thepoetrygods.com/ (much thanks to José Ortiz for designing the website! shouts to Jess X Chen for making our logo)

If you don't know Teebs, you're about to. Eric and I sat down with one of the hardest working and most genuinely love-filled poets in America, who just so happens to live in Bushwick, Tommy Pico. We cover a ton of ground in this episode--from Tommy's early years on a reservation to his arrival in NYC and the beginnings of his growth as a human being and as a writer. We really hope you enjoy this as much as we did. Talking to Teebs is a lovely thing.