The Hemingway Center Reading Series presents: Julian T. Brolaski

Schedule

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Hemingway Western Studies Center | Boise, ID

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The Hemingway Center Reading Series and Boise State Creative Writing MFA Program present poet and country musician, Julian T. Brolaski.
"Reading Brolaski is like reading the David Foster Wallace of poetry (or rather, the work of David Foster Wallace’s cooler, less-pretentious sibling)....It’s poetry like you’ve never read poetry before. --Consortium Books
Event Details
At 7:30 PM on Friday, October 24, 2025, Schiff will give a reading of her work, followed by a Q and A and book signing. Free and open to the public, the Hemingway Center Reading Series brings renowned writers to campus each year.
About Julian T. Brolaski
Julian T. Brolaski (it / xe / they), a poet and country musician, authored the collections "Of Mongrelitude" (Wave Books 2017), "Advice for Lovers" (City Lights 2012), and "gowanus atropolis" (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). Among other honors, Julian served as the 2023–2024 Bagley Wright lecturer, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow, and received the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. You can find its poems in anthologies, including "Queer Nature" (2022), "When the Light of the World was Subdued," "Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry" (2020) and "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics" (Nightboat 2020). Julian is currently co-editing an anthology of two-spirit and Indigiqueer poetry with Crisosto Apache, forthcoming from Litmus Press in 2026. With their band Juan & the Pines, Julian released the EP Glittering Forest in 2019; Julian’s full-length album It’s Okay Honey came out in 2023. Julian lives in Goleta, CA.
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Hemingway Western Studies Center, 1890 W University Dr,Boise, Idaho, United States

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