Tommy Pico: How Not To Be One With Nature

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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 […]

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0:00.0	Hi, this is LGBTQ and A. I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is a show where we get to know different
0:07.5	members of the LGBTQ community. Today, at a conversation with Tommy Pico. Tommy is a poet.
0:13.6	We talk about his poetry, about writing about sex. We talk about growing up on a Native American
0:18.5	reservation in the way that Native Americans are perceived today. It's super interesting. Before we get to it, though, we want to say thank you to
0:24.9	everyone who's been leaving five-star reviews on iTunes. It is such a massive help, specifically
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0:45.1	surprises. So you can do that at LGBTQpodcast.com. Okay, let's get to the interview.
1:04.8	Hey, Tommy, welcome to the show.
1:05.7	Nice to be here.
1:06.6	Thanks, thanks.
1:13.6	So last time I was in New York, I saw you did a poetry show, and you started off by saying that most poetry readings are boring.
1:14.7	That's correct.
1:15.5	Yours was not.
1:17.8	I thank you very much.
1:24.8	I have worked really hard in my poetry career to ensure that when I get on stage, you remember who I am.
1:25.5	Yeah.
1:27.1	People did.
1:29.0	It was refreshing to hear a poet say that because I feel like that's something that people say,
1:30.7	but not publicly.
1:32.3	Yeah, I don't have much room for false humility.
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