Julian talamantez brolaski biography

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).
Julian Talamantez Brolaski (it/its/itself) is a poet, country musician, and scholar whose work deals with issues of indigeneity, resistance, queer/two-spirit.
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is a two-spirit and transgender poet and musician of mixed Mescalero and Lipan Apache, Latin@, and European heritages.

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Author Julian Talamantez Brolaski’s book “Of Mongrelitude”

Julian Talamantez Brolaski is a two-spirit and transgender poet and musician of mixed Mescalero and Lipan Apache, Latin@, and European heritages. Its most recent book is Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. It is also the author of Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012), gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011), and co-editor of a book of essays, No Gender: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards(Litmus Press/Belladonna Books, 2009). Brolaski’s scholarly and poetic work deals with issues of indigeneity, resistance, two-spirit, trans, and mixed-race identity, and the way that language and song function as medicine. Its work has been included in the anthologies New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf, 2018), Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits (University of New Mexico Press, 2017), and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics(Nightboat, 2012). Sponsored by the department of English and creati

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Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Julian Talamantez Brolaski (it/its/itself) is a poet, country musician, and scholar whose work deals with issues of indigeneity, resistance, queer/two-spirit, trans, and mixed-race identity, and the ways that language and song function as medicine.

Brolaski’s book Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017) is a documentation of mixed-race and mixed-gender experience; a colloquy on the mongrel body, textual and actual, sexual and specieal. The book was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry in 2018. Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012), composed in a mixture of verse and prose, contains formal sonnets, alliterated verse, and invented forms intended to queer Ovid’s heterosexual counsel in Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love). Gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling, 2011) is an eco-poetical exploration of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, re-inscribing, as always already present, both queer and Indigenous spaces in and around New York City through a radical reshaping of English. Brolaski is also the co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the L

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Music Bio

Julian Talamantez 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).

Poetry Bio

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). Julian 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