Writ Large Press

Here’s, at least as far as I know, the first review of our very first title, Kim Calder’s Who’s to Say What’s Home.

It appears in Rattle and Kim is very happy with the review.

I like this passage best:

I found one of the best poems of the collection to be “emergency room,” in which the daughter has to face her father’s aging and eventual death. This is a universal issue that we all have to deal with, yet the poem doesn’t veer into triteness at all. Calder demonstrates a remarkable ability to portray real grief – which I find refreshing in the midst of the many poems in this collection that seem to try to drown grief out.

Check it out!

History of Our Lives – by Kim Calder from Chiwan Choi on Vimeo.

This is Kim reading at Skylight Books on 4/3. It was a great night of supportive fans, book lovers, and poetry.

She read from her book, although only 1 poem from it (“sunstroke”), and also her ongoing epic masterpiece, “prison house.” To finish it off, she read two newer pieces, including the poem in the video above, “History of Our Lives.”

As some of you know, this was Kim’s final reading in Los Angeles before taking off for Prague (she got a writing fellowship – jealous!) and then, upon her return to the US, back to school for another Master’s.

The night was also meaningful for the people we met – Cati Porter, whose work I didn’t know before, but blew me away with her last two poems (the one about her dog having cancer just slayed me); Jade Shames who in charge of poetry at Skylight Books and is the one who booked the writers; and Noel Alumit.

We’ll post some more pictures in the coming days.

Please join us at Skylight Books tomorrow night as Kim Calder does her final reading before leaving Los Angeles for Prague!

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

It was a great turnout.

And the bookstore is beautiful. A cafe in the back. A back area with tables where people can smoke.

Karen Harryman, who was the other featured reader, was fantastic. She read from a YA novel she was working on. Check out her work.

Nice.

Kim Calder is reading in our neighborhood, Dowtown LA, at the Sip Tea on Broadway.

She will be accompanied, among others, by Melora Walters, who is one of Kim’s students and a wonderful actress (Wanda Henrickson on “Big Love”).

Looking forward to it!

Here’s the info:

Friday, Feb 13th
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Sip Tea
852 S Broadway
Los Angeles, CA

Featuring:

Kim Calder
Bryan Sanders
kalimity J
Melora Walters
Hannah Wehr