See the flyer below for details on an upcoming poetry reading at Northwestern University! This event will feature poet and country singer Julian Talamantez Brolaski and will be held Wednesday, February 26, at 5:00 PM. Undergrads, grads, faculty, and community members are all welcome to join. (Snacks will also be provided!)

(The following bio has been provided by Northwestern University.)

Julian Talamantez Brolaski (it / xe / them) is a poet and country singer, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011).  Brolaski is a 2023 Bagley Wright lecturer, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow, and the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry.  Its poems were recently included in 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).  With its band Juan & the Pines, it released an EP Glittering Forest in 2019; Brolaski’s first full-length album It’s Okay Honey came out in August 2023.

Brolaski makes traditional, inventive Americana music, adding poetic lyricism to melodies inspired by some of country and western music’s original recording stars and most beloved sounds. Classical piano lessons, the poetry and queer country music scenes on both coasts, and years spent studying languages gave Brolaski the foundation to create “sweet, cutting, and melancholy” (Country Queer) music with various bands and now as a solo artist on It’s Okay Honey, which came out August 4, 2023. As a poet, Brolaski has released three critically acclaimed books of poems that “[push] lyric to its limits, often forcing it as close to music as it can get” (Public Books).