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Western Washington University’s English Department, Women Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Equity and Inclusion Forum, and the LGBTQ Advocacy Council will host reading by poet Julian Talamantez Brolaski at 6 p.m.on Tuesday, April 24 in Viking Union Room 565.

Brolaski is the author of “Of Mongrelitude” (Wave Books 2017), which was just shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and “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).

Brolaski is currently the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country bands Juan & the Pines (Brooklyn) and The Western Skyline (Oakland) and researching and editing “The Apache Pollen Path,” a book on the Mescalero Apache female initiation ceremony with its grandmother, Inés Talamantez.