Nico Wilkinson's debut full-length poetry collection and handmade book The Weeds Grow Anyway is a celebration of that which lies beyond resilience in the face of adversity: audacity. Writing from Colorado Springs amidst a time of anti-trans violence, they examine the relationship of trans people to this world through the lens of nature's relationship to humans. What makes a plant into a weed, something deemed unacceptable to the landscape? The poetry within - much like the local flora and trans people who live there - is rooted in the experience of queering the inhospitable landscape that is Colorado Springs.
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Nico Wilkinson (they/he) is a poet, teaching artist, and printer based out of Colorado Springs, CO. Their work is a celebration of identity, resilience, and joy, and through their poetry and printing workshops they seek to inspire the joy of creation in others.