Tony Brewer Book Launch Reading

TONY BREWER is a poet, live sound effects artist, and event producer. He is executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Arts Festival; co-producer of the Writers Guild Spoken Word Series; and president of the National Audio Theatre Festivals. His writing has appeared in Ryder Magazine, Laureate, Seppuku Quarterly, Voices from the Fire, Rye Whiskey Review, Fevers of the Mind, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, Pulp Poets Press, The Beatnik Cowboy, Punk Noir Magazine, and elsewhere, and he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. He frequently collaborates with experimental audio collective Urban Deer Recording Cvlt and he has produced and recorded for KKFI, KOPN, and WFHB community radio and WFIU public radio, as well as NPR Playhouse and the HEAR Now Audio Fiction & Arts Festival. His books include: The Great American Scapegoat, Little Glove in a Big Hand, Hot Type Cold Read, Homunculus, and most recently, The History of Projectiles. His work also appears in the anthologies A Linen Weave of Bloomington Poets; And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana; Writers Resist: Hoosier Writers Unite; Death by Punk, and on the Urban Deer album Paris Suite. Tony has been offering Poetry On Demand at coffeehouses, museums, cemeteries, churches, bars, and art and music festivals for over a decade, and he is a founding member of the poetry performance group Reservoir Dogwoods.