SUMARR Reading Series
Friday, June 13
Doors: 7:30pm
Event: 8pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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The second edition if this summer’s SUMARR Reading Series hosted by Diana Arterian. Featuring writers Elisa Wouk Almino, CD Eskilson, Anna Moschovakis, and Chris Santiago, plus music tba.
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Elisa Wouk Almino is a writer, editor and literary translator from the Portuguese. She is currently the editor in chief of Image, the magazine on L.A. style, fashion and art at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to joining Image, Wouk Almino was a senior editor at Hyperallergic, where she launched and ran the art magazine’s L.A. bureau. She has previously edited and written for various publications including Words Without Borders, n+1, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Rizzoli, Guernica and the Nation. At one point, she gave gallery tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught art criticism and literary translation at UCLA Extension and Catapult.
CD Eskilson is a trans nonbinary poet and translator. Their work appears in the Kenyon Review, The Offing, Cincinnati Review, among others, and they are the poetry co-editor at Split Lip Magazine. CD’s debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is now available from Acre Books. Once, they were in a punk band.
Anna Moschovakis is a poet, novelist, and translator whose most recent novel is An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (2024, Soft Skull Press). Other books include the novels Participation, Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They, We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her translation of David Diop's At Night All Blood Is Black won the International Booker Prize. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY.
Chris Santiago’s poetry collection Small Wars Manual was recently published by Milkweed Editions. His debut collection Tula was selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. His collaboration with composer Lembit Beecher and ethnographer Todd Lawrence, Say Home, was commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and received its world premiere in 2019. A Loft Poetry Mentor and Fellow of the McKnight Foundation, the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, and Kundiman, he received his PhD from the University of Southern California and recently joined the Faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Santa Clarita, CA. He lives in Pasadena.