Sumarr Reading Series
Friday. July 17
Doors: 7pm
Event: 7:30pm
at 2220 Arts+ArchivesSumarr, a seasonal reading series curated and hosted by Diana Arterian, begins its next season with this exciting lineup.
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Óscar Moisés Díaz is a poet, artist, film and art curator, and translator who has exhibited work worldwide. They were the 2020–2021 Inaugural Curatorial Fellow at the Poetry Project. Their translations of Fabrizio Quemé appear widely, and they are one of the translators of the forthcoming anthology of the poet Alfonso Kijadurías (Kalina Press). They were the inaugural Editor of Poetry in Translation at Fence and currently serve in the same capacity at The Offing.
Elizabeth Hall is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. She is the author of the books, Season of the Rat, and I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. She reviews new books for Full Stop.
Preeti Vangani is a poet & writer from Bombay based in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers (River River Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize.Vangani has been a resident at UCross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission and YBCA, and is a 2026-27 Steinbeck fellow. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program.
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, non-binary, crip/disabled, brown, writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker and creature of the Colombian diaspora. They are a professor of queer, feminist, and disability studies and poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal. Their previously published works include: The Inheritance of Haunting, Ephemeral, Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary, Medusita, and Wayward Creatures. Their poetry and creative non-fiction have been published in American Poetry Review, The Normal School, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alocasia, Poetry, and Waxwing, among other places. They live in Tongva lands in southern California.
Julia Metzler is a highly sought-after classical singer, concert soloist, and session singer. Raised in a musical family that also runs the Metzler Violin Shop, her musical training began at an early age as a violinist. Known for her versatility and large vocal range, Ms. Metzler regularly performs both soprano and mezzo-soprano repertoire, from Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro to the title role in Madama Butterfly, and both the mezzo and soprano solos in Verdi’s Requiem. As a roster member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Ms. Metzler can frequently be heard performing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.