Monica Rico
@monicaricopoet.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Pinion.
Sailor in training. Hardcore feminist. https://www.monicaricopoet.com/
Sailor in training. Hardcore feminist. https://www.monicaricopoet.com/
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“As a person who sticks to the recipe, step by step, exact measurements and all, I appreciate how today’s poem lifts up the magic of feeling and improvisation, of putting one’s whole body into a task.”
Read “Ferment” by @monicaricopoet.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iqbnNi
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Read “Ferment” by @monicaricopoet.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iqbnNi
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“As a person who sticks to the recipe, step by step, exact measurements and all, I appreciate how today’s poem lifts up the magic of feeling and improvisation, of putting one’s whole body into a task.”
Read “Ferment” by @monicaricopoet.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iqbnNi
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
Read “Ferment” by @monicaricopoet.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iqbnNi
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
Thank you Major Jackson and The Slowdown for featuring Ferment as an encore episode. #baking #bread #culinaryschool #poetry #focus #slowdown
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[encore] 1078: Ferment by Monica Rico
Today’s poem is Ferment by Monica Rico.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thank you Major Jackson and The Slowdown for featuring Ferment as an encore episode. #baking #bread #culinaryschool #poetry #focus #slowdown
www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
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The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who in 1959-60 took part in a privately funded research program run by physician William Randolph Lovelace II, a private contractor to #NASA, which aimed to test and screen the women for spaceflight #InternationalWomensDay
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Mercury 13 - Wikipedia
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March 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who in 1959-60 took part in a privately funded research program run by physician William Randolph Lovelace II, a private contractor to #NASA, which aimed to test and screen the women for spaceflight #InternationalWomensDay
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury...
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Is there a woman who has impacted your life in a profound way? NPR wants to hear your story.
For Women's History Month, NPR wants to know who has made an impact in your life
Is there a woman who has impacted your life in a profound way? NPR wants to hear your story.
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February 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Is there a woman who has impacted your life in a profound way? NPR wants to hear your story.
New poems up at Xican@ Poetry Daily. #poetry #poems #cancer #survival
#treatment
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#treatment
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Monica Rico
Monica Rico is a Mexican American CantoMundo Fellow, Macondista, and the author of PINION, winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry selected by Kaveh Akbar. She holds an MFA from the Univ…
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February 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New poems up at Xican@ Poetry Daily. #poetry #poems #cancer #survival
#treatment
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#treatment
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Happy to announce our 2025 Bear River Writers' Conference faculty! Hope to see some of you in Northern Michigan in late August . . .
February 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Happy to announce our 2025 Bear River Writers' Conference faculty! Hope to see some of you in Northern Michigan in late August . . .
Mark your calendars for February 22nd at Book Beat
#annecarson
#poetry
#detroit
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#annecarson
#poetry
#detroit
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February 22: Anne Carson, Dunya Mikhail, and More - The Backroom
Saturday, February 22 at 6:30 join us at Book Beat for a poetry reading featuring Anne Carson, Dunya Mikhail, Cameron McLeod Martin, Monica Rico, and Stephanie Glazier. Sunday, February 22 from 6-9 pm...
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February 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Mark your calendars for February 22nd at Book Beat
#annecarson
#poetry
#detroit
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#annecarson
#poetry
#detroit
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Happy #blackhistorymonth
Here is one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets. #goingtomars #nikkigiovanni
#poetry
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Here is one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets. #goingtomars #nikkigiovanni
#poetry
issues.org/quilting-the...
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars)
Poet Nikki Giovanni reminds us that we can learn from the past to imagine how we might construct our shared destiny on this planet—and on others.
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February 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Happy #blackhistorymonth
Here is one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets. #goingtomars #nikkigiovanni
#poetry
issues.org/quilting-the...
Here is one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets. #goingtomars #nikkigiovanni
#poetry
issues.org/quilting-the...
Two more newish poems from #likeafield
#poetry #poems #illness #cancer #poet #survival
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#poetry #poems #illness #cancer #poet #survival
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Monica Rico - Two poems
a seasonal journal of art & poetry
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January 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Two more newish poems from #likeafield
#poetry #poems #illness #cancer #poet #survival
www.likeafield.com/2024/fall/mo...
#poetry #poems #illness #cancer #poet #survival
www.likeafield.com/2024/fall/mo...
A poem of mine from not too long ago. #poetry #poem #cancer #surviving #katebush
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RUNNING UP THAT HILL (A DEAL WITH GOD)
It claws it doesn’t begin with an itch a single hurt a pointed branch me and my fingertips ...
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January 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A poem of mine from not too long ago. #poetry #poem #cancer #surviving #katebush
gulfcoastmag.org/online/karao...
gulfcoastmag.org/online/karao...
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52 years ago, Roe v. Wade secured the reproductive rights women fought for. In 2022, Dobbs overturned it & 22 states restricted our freedoms.
2 days ago, Trump took down reproductiverights.gov. But @reprocaucus.bsky.social will continue to share abortion resources. Your body, your choice!
2 days ago, Trump took down reproductiverights.gov. But @reprocaucus.bsky.social will continue to share abortion resources. Your body, your choice!
reproductiverights.gov
January 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
52 years ago, Roe v. Wade secured the reproductive rights women fought for. In 2022, Dobbs overturned it & 22 states restricted our freedoms.
2 days ago, Trump took down reproductiverights.gov. But @reprocaucus.bsky.social will continue to share abortion resources. Your body, your choice!
2 days ago, Trump took down reproductiverights.gov. But @reprocaucus.bsky.social will continue to share abortion resources. Your body, your choice!
Reposted by Monica Rico
Here's Emily to heat up this cold Wednesday morning
January 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Here's Emily to heat up this cold Wednesday morning
I come back to this poem often. Nothing has changed. #poetry #poem @theslowdown.bsky.social
#adalimón
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#adalimón
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653: Get Out of the Water
Today’s poem is Get Out of the Water by Monica Rico.
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January 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I come back to this poem often. Nothing has changed. #poetry #poem @theslowdown.bsky.social
#adalimón
www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022...
#adalimón
www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022...
