A quick summary: a very cool recently opened used bookstore called The Last Bookstore, on 4th & Main in downtown Los Angeles (at the old Old Bank DVD spot), offered us some shelf space to curate with chapbooks from local writers. Well, as of today, Thursday 3/11/10, the shelf is open, just in time for this month’s Downtown Art Walk! So drop in, if not tonight, sometime soon.

The shelf will always hold chapbooks from 20 authors. Most often than not, there will be 3 copies of each book. We will regularly rotate the authors and books.

We will begin a monthly reading series, most likely in April.

It will all be a blast!

So, without further delay, here is the list of the 20 initial authors/books:

• Christina Kerr – Stumbling Out Loud
• Margie Goodspeed – Shovel and Pail
• Susan Vorhand – Pouring Ribbons
• Elya Braden – The Journey Home
• Barbara Greene Rusin – Free Range
• Justin Klippel – Squid Ink
• John M. FitzGerald – The Mind
• Pat Lucas – The Mistress
• Mary Thornton-Brown – The People in the Sky
• Bruce Arnold – Tide Pools in Lava
• Robert Carroll – B+
• Chiwan Choi – cancer
• Alejandro Escudé – Unknown Physics
• Paul Cummins – From the Shadows: Poems from 2009
• James Berry – Monk’s Room
• G. Murray Thomas – Songs of Inappropriate Desire
• Carrie Kirshman – Grey
• Veryle Rupp – Inside Snowfence
• Alice Hayward – Breathing in the Depths
• Hal Martin Bogotch – The Dance of Life

Also, a few local anthologies:

• Wednesday #1.2 “Alchemy”
• MO+TH #5
• Twelve Los Angeles Poets – an ONTHEBUS Series

Thank you writers who have sent me your books. They are beautiful in the bookstore.

I hope all of you will continue to support our local writers and places like The Last Bookstore that are too few and far between.

Flickr is down so I’m not able to post all the pics, but here’s one.

And for those who couldn’t make it, and the ones who came but couldn’t buy a copy at the party, the book is available here for purchase.

Thank you to Marilyn Friedman for hosting the party. Thank you friends, family, and lover of books again for your continuing support.

$15 plus shipping.

Purchase now!

It’s a 5-day turnaround, so still good for the release party in honor of Aaron’s book, but just to make double sure, we put on a rush job order.

The postcards we ordered should be here by tomorrow (was hoping for today). Once I have those in my hands, I’ll be footing around downtown passing them out.

All in all, almost time to breathe. Almost. Need to see those boxes of books here. Then breathe.

Also, we got a Press Release written up and sent out. Hate writing those. I don’t know why. Something about it creeps me out. But part of the business.

SEE YOU AT THE PARTY!!

The hope is, with each proofreading session, every error will be caught. Um…no.

It’s like they multiply while you’re not looking. Those stray commas. Them extra spaces. Those O’s mistaken for o’s.

Anyway, caught all of ‘em this time for sure! I swear! And back to the printer. Ready to order the 250 copies for the PARTY!!

Come to the party and you’ll see how perfect the book is.

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.

****

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

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!

Another beautiful design by Judeth. The front cover of our upcoming book, You Already Know, by Aaron Henne, due on September 19, 2009.

Party info to come.