One of Bloomington's finest and most outspoken poets, Hiromi Yoshida is the author of Joyce & Jung: The "Four Stages of Eroticism" in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2006, 2022); the poetry chapbooks Icarus Burning (2020, finalist for the New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize), Epicanthus (2021), Icarus Hieroglyph (2023), Icarus Superstar (2023), and Umami (2025); and the full-length poetry books Icarus Redux (2021) and Green Roses Bloom for Icarus (2024, semifinalist for the Gerald Cable Book Award). Her poems have been included in the INverse Poetry Archive, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. While teaching poetry for the Indiana Writers Center, and serving as Poetry Editor for Flying Island Journal, she coordinaOne of Bloomington's finest and most outspoken poets, Hiromi Yoshida is the author of Joyce & Jung: The "Four Stages of Eroticism" in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2006, 2022); the poetry chapbooks Icarus Burning (2020, finalist for the New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize), Epicanthus (2021), Icarus Hieroglyph (2023), Icarus Superstar (2023), and Umami (2025); and the full-length poetry books Icarus Redux (2021) and Green Roses Bloom for Icarus (2024, semifinalist for the Gerald Cable Book Award). Her poems have been included in the INverse Poetry Archive, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. While teaching poetry for the Indiana Writers Center, and serving as Poetry Editor for Flying Island Journal, she coordinates the Last Sunday Poetry reading series for the Writers Guild at Bloomington....more