Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic
Schedule
Sun Mar 30 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Morgenstern Books & Café, 849 S Auto Mall Rd, Bloomington, IN 47401 | Bloomington, IN
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The Writers Guild at Bloomington presents Last Sunday Poetry, featuring Brooke Nicole Plummer, Hiromi Yoshida, and Tony Brewer (MC Joan Hawkins).TONY BREWER is a poet and audio artist from Bloomington, Indiana, where he is executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts, and co-producer of the Writers Guild Spoken Word Series and the Urban Deer Performance Series. He has published 13 books and chapbooks, including most recently Good Job, Lightning (Stubborn Mule Press, 2024) and Water Witch (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025). Tony has been offering Poetry On Demand at coffeehouses, museums, cemeteries, churches, bars, and art and music festivals for over fifteen years, and he is a frequent collaborator with experimental music and field recording ensemble ORTET. Tony was named Indiana’s 2024 Literary Champion by the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. More at linktr.ee/TonyBrewer.
Tony Brewer's Literary Champion video:
Tony Brewer's Amazon author page:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tony-Brewer/author/B00MAJJSM0?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Author of two full-length poetry collections and four poetry chapbooks, HIROMI YOSHIDA is a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize, and a semifinalist for the Gerald Cable Book Award. She is the Poetry Editor of Flying Island Journal and serves on the board of directors for the Writers Guild at Bloomington, while coordinating the Guild’s Last Sunday Poetry reading series. Editor of Stormwash: Environmental Poems, her poems have been included in the INverse Poetry Archive and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net.
Hiromi Yoshida's reading at the 2024 Writers Guild at Bloomington Spoken Word Stage at the Fourth Street Festival of the Arts & Crafts:
Hiromi Yoshida's Amazon author page:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001JSDUMC
BROOKE NICOLE PLUMMER is a writer and musician from the Midwest region. Her first full-length collection of poems is Flyover, Compiled Nothings (independently published, November 2018), and her second poety chapbook is Shaggy Frog (Alien Buddha Press, January 2021). As a performance artist, she goes by “The Rotten Fruit”.
Brooke Nicole Plummer's website:
https://www.neutralspaces.co/brooke-nicole-plummer/
Read poems from Shaggy Frog at:
https://alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/spotlight-shaggy-frog-by-brooke-nicole-plummer/
Emerging poets who need a supportive audience, and established poets who want to promote published works: Sign up for open mic! Your words are precious. (2-3 min. per open mic participant)
Come 20-40 min. before the 7pm program start time so you can:
- Sign up for open mic
- Meet and greet featured poets, and each other
- Purchase the store's books and other gift items
The Writers Guild at Bloomington is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
https://writersguildbloomington.com/
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Where is it happening?
Morgenstern Books & Café, 849 S Auto Mall Rd, Bloomington, IN 47401, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
