Yes, it is true we haven’t put out a book since George W. Bush was President, but we like to take our time and make sure the book is perfect. And, we promise, we won’t wait for another presidential change to release our next title!

SO

please join us to celebrate Aaron and his wonderful book at the most awesome downtown joint, La Cita.

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Writ Large Press
invites you to join us
as we celebrate the publication of

Aaron Henne’s
YOU ALREADY KNOW

with a signing & party on

Saturday
9/19/09

La Cita Bar
336 S. Hill St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

8PM

Although we’ve had to push the release of his book back a bit, Aaron is one of the hardest working people in the biz.

So do come and check it out. To hear him and also to hear the other fantastic writers (I personally am very excited about hearing Evan Wright).

See you there. Click picture for better view of info.

We’re so excited to have a reading booked at Skylight. It is probably the major independent bookstore (along with Vroman’s in Pasadena) around Los Angeles. Which means, we need to make a GREAT SHOWING so we can have more events there in the future and sell our books there.

Kim will be reading with Cati Porter, poet and editor of Poemelon.

Full info below:

Friday, April 3rd
7:30 p.m.
Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Kim Calder & Cati Porter

So don’t miss her!

Friday, March 27th, 8 p.m. at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park, 1716 Sunset Blvd.

Kim will be reading with Karen Harryman, a Black Goat Press poet (now an imprint of Akashic Books), and here’s her deal:

Karen Harryman’s poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Poetry New Zealand, and the Cortland Review, as well as other print and online journals. Before moving to Los Angeles, she lived and worked in Kentucky for most of her life. Currently, she teaches English and creative writing at YULA, an Orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles. Auto Mechanic’s Daughter is her first book.

Stories, if you haven’t been yet, is a beautiful little bookstore that opened in Echo Park. They, like all small independent bookstores, could use our support.

It was an incredible night for us, for Kim, for the bar, for all the friends and strangers that were there. I don’t want to say it was beyond what I could have imagined because we all expected a special night, but well, it sort of was beyond our imagination.

I didn’t take make photos because somehow, in all the excitement, my brain just froze up and I was telling Judeth, “Um, I forgot how to use this point and shoot camera that I’ve taken about 10,000 pictures with already.” (So for those of you who were there and took pictures, PLEASE EMAIL SOME TO US!)

On a night we released a book called Who’s to Say What’s Home, we felt at home.

Kim read as well as I’ve ever heard her. The pieces she chose from the book really took us all on a great personal journey. Even those who were there and had never really been to poetry readings before were completely engaged and moved by her poems. And Justin Klippel and Mike the Poet, two of our faves who were gracious enough to share a little bit of their own work and take part in the festivities, were the perfect “warm-up” acts.

I’ll keep posting more about the event and the aftermath as the days go by, including pictures if/when we can get them, but one thing I wanted to share with you is the feeling that Judeth and I were left with all weekend:

On a night we released a book called Who’s to Say What’s Home, we felt at home. We felt part of a special community, one that we cared about and one that cared about us. And for the first time in a long while, we felt like we didn’t want to move again.