SUMARR Reading Series
Saturday, August 31
Doors: 6pm
Reading: 6:30pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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The Poetic Research Bureau presents another edition of the SUMARR Reading Series, programmed by Diana Arterian. This iteration features writers Amelia Ada, T Bambrick, Lory Bedikian, and musician Corey Fogel.
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Amelia Ada is the author of the book-length poem Hard and Glad, forthcoming from DOPAMINE/Semiotext(e) in 2026. Her poems and essays have appeared widely, and she is the co-host of the podcast You Shouldn’t Let Poets Lie To You. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. Read more at amelia-ada.com.
T Bambrick (she/they) is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press, Sept 2022) and Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds for the 2019 American Poetry Review/Honickman first book award (APR 2019). A graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program, their poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Nation, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.
Lory Bedikian’s collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Her forthcoming book Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, forthcoming September, 2024 from the University of Nebraska Press. Bedikian’s poems received the Neruda Prize for Poetry in the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards. Her work is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration, KNOPF, 2020 and her manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
Sudanese by way of Washington D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the California Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the National Book Award, she is also the recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others, and her commissions include Under Armour, Cuyana, and the Bavarian State Ballet. She lives in Los Angeles.
Corey Fogel is a composer, drummer, and artist based in Los Angeles. He works across genre and medium to explore many facets of improvisation. He approaches sounds, textiles, collaborators, gestures, and objects as viable materials for spontaneous, strategized, time-based experimental performance, often incorporating sculpture, video, music traditions, theatricality, and ritual.