Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
- Literary Arts
About
Residency Dates
- June 2017 – July 2017
- February 2018 – March 2018
- April 2018 – April 2018
- June 2018 – July 2018
- December 2018 – February 2019
Region
USA
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is poet and singer, the author
of two recent chapbooks, COME CORRECT
(fivehundred places 2018), and JULIAN
(krupskaya 2018), three full length books, Of
Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017), Advice
for Lovers (City Lights 2012), gowanus
atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life &
Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books 2009). Julian is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist
in the country bands Juan & the Pines (NYC) and The Western Skyline
(Oakland) (www.thewesternskyline.org), and has sung with the Bay Area American
Indian Two-Spirits drum. Julian is
currently a Literary Fellow at the Lucas Artists Program at the Montalvo Arts
Center, researching and editing a book on the Mescalero Apache coming-of-age
ceremony. Julian’s work deals with
issues of indigeneity, resistance, two-spirit, trans, and mixed-race identity,
and the way that language and song function as medicine.