Ammons, which was written on a single roll of adding tape over the course of about a month. We read an excerpt from Tape for the Turn of the Year by A. The poem as a whole, which is over 70 pages long, started as an exercise at a Brooklyn Poets retreat in May 2014 actually. –Originally published in Blunderbuss, 2014. 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. The author of absentMINDR (VERBALVISUAL, 2014)-the first chapbook APP published for iOS mobile/tablet devices-Pico was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow and a 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry and has published poems in BOMB, Guernica, and elsewhere. Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the founder and editor-in-chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press and zine that publishes art and writing.