LAST SUNDAY POETRY READING & OPEN MIC

The Writers Guild at Bloomington presents Last Sunday Poetry, featuring Hiromi Yoshida and Tony Brewer. This is a dual book launch reading for Hiromi Yoshida’s Icarus in Crete (Alien Buddha Press, 2025) and Tony Brewer’s Water Witch (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025), rescheduled from 25 January.

This program has been made possible through a grant from Indiana Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author of four full-length poetry collections and seven poetry chapbooks, HIROMI YOSHIDA is a finalist for the Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize, and a semifinalist for the Silverfish Review’s Gerald Cable Book Award. She is the Poetry Editor of Flying Island Journal, Chair of the Writers Guild at Bloomington, and curator of the Guild’s Last Sunday Poetry reading series. Her latest poetry book is All Those Pretty Horses (Alien Buddha Press, June 2026), and her seventh poetry chapbook is Pothos (Pure Sleeze Press, August 2026).

TONY BREWER is a poet and audio artist from Bloomington, Indiana. He has published 13 books and chapbooks, most recently Chin Music (OAC Press, 2026). Tony has been offering Poetry On Demand at coffeehouses, museums, cemeteries, churches, bars, and art and music festivals for over fifteen years and was named Indiana’s 2024 Literary Champion by Indiana Humanities.