The Hemingway Center Reading Series and Boise State Creative Writing MFA Program present poet and country musician, Julian T. Brolaski.

Event Details

At 7:30 PM on Friday, October 24, 2025, Brolaski will give a reading of its 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.