Written and Read

"Penelope," originally published in CommuterLit in October of 2022.

"Beautiful he was in the braided lamplight over the drinks and the smoke and the cards, she remembers, beautiful."

Charlie Hope-D'Anieri reads his piece, "The Soup."

"The magnificent Beauceron has not received his due!"

An original poem.

"Ember Baby," originally published in JMWW in June of 2024.

“His father always told him that family was the one thing for which you sacrificed everything else. But he worried, with each passing day, if the love he felt for Madeline would be one of the things that he had to sacrifice in the name of family.”

"Theseus," originally published in Visual Verse Vol. 6 - Chapter 12 in October of 2019.

"She’ll tell you about her perspective, her layers, how she composes herself. She’ll tell you that she is both a subjective object and the process that creates that object."

"A Companion Piece" (original and unpublished)

"The city, he says, alienates the individual, makes him feel as though he will be lost to history unless someone records both the great and the terrible things he does."

London-based writer Dale Hall reads his piece, "Robinson's Wake," originally published in The Wells Street Journal Issue 12 in the Winter of 2019.

"Because of his purpose, Calderon likes to see parallels. Rather than seeing the text scraped from the parchment and replaced by other events, as Keiller does, he likes to see the text gone over with a ballpoint pen again and again until the page is rife with thick, black figures and occasional tears."

Three original poems: "Darth Vader Socks," "Optimism," & "1+1=1"

"Protest," originally published in The Wells Street Journal Issue 13:  Disruption in the City in 2020.

“We were against Islamophobia, homophobia, xenophobia. We were against it all. Especially the hair.”

"Porch Light" originally published in Ab Terra 2020 story collection from Brain Mill Press in January of 2021.

“I thought I already knew all the things I know but evidently, I don’t.”