Friday, July 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
**Sumarr**, a seasonal reading series curated and hosted by Diana Arterian, begins its next season with this exciting lineup: **Óscar Moisés Díaz**, **Elizabeth Hall**, **Preeti Vangani** and **heidi andrea restrepo rhodes**, with music by **Dominic Delzompo**. ∆ **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. **Dominic Delzompo** is a Bass-Baritone, songwriter, composer, and music producer based in Los Angeles, and an alumnus of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Last year, Delzompo released the album, Hypomanic God Complex, performing a thirty-stop tour. Delzompo has sung at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl, Pauley Pavilion, the Rose Bowl, St. John's Cathedral, and other venues. He is now a roster member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale.