Where Poetry Chapbooks and Smartphones Meet

Tommy Pico is best known for his poetry and his work with the fantastic literary venture known as birdsong. Now, he’s making a move into technology with Absent Mindr, a hybrid of poetry chapbook and smartphone app, blending text and audio. The poems themselves are described on the project’s website as “articulating a terrain of contemporary American Indian queer identity that extends from Pico’s roots on the Viejas Indian Reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation, into the hipster haven of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, […]

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