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Kim Calder received her Master’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and her Bachelor’s in English from the University of California at Berkeley in Contemporary Poetry and Fiction. Published in various nationally distributed literary journals and author of four chapbooks, she has been a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective since the year 2000, and has participated in numerous spoken word events throughout Southern California. She teaches writing workshops nationally.

Websites: This is Kim Calder, Conger Seminars

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Who’s to Say What’s Home

poems by Kim Calder

poetry
ISBN-13: 978-0981483610
144 pages
$15.00

Release date: May 2, 2008

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“The poems in this collection will knock your socks off, and if you’re not wearing socks, they’ll bring you to your kness. Every generation produces a poet of unique sensibilities, and Kim Calder is that poet, a bright new light announcing her presence with this book of poems. There are only a few poets who can bring such use of language and the heartfelt sense of loss to bear on the work at hand. As a first book which portends many more to come, it ranks with Sharon Olds’ Satan Says, Dorianne Laux’s Awake, and Richard Jones’ Country of Air. You will be reading Kim Calder’s poems for many years to come, and they will change your life.” — Jack Grapes

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“The brutal honesty she employs disarms the reader, drawing us deeper & deeper into her world. Keep an eye on Kim Calder—she is a genuine voice in an age of artifice.” — Mike Sonksen AKA Mike the Poet

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“Kim Calder doesn’t kid herself. Her poems are full of sharp, swift observations that turn around, at the last minute, to trip the poet up–and that’s after she’s already caught us, her readers, in the act of hoping she’ll go easy on us. No such luck. These are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always well-wrought. I’m eager for them to find their readers. But look out—they already know what you’re thinking.” — Chris Nealon