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It’s Very Indian to Watch Ab Fab

Aired on The Believer Magazine and KCRW’s The Organist Podcast and chosen as an On Air Festival official select.

It's Very Indian to Watch AbFab

December 15, 2017 by Kristina Loring

Tommy 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.

This piece aired on KCRW and McSweeney's The Organist podcast.

December 15, 2017 /Kristina Loring
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