AIRED: May 14, 2023
SPECIAL GUEST: Kim Dower
Kim Dower
Kim Dower has published five collections of poetry. Her most recent, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom, (April, 2022) was called “fantastic” by the Washington Post and “unreservedly recommended” by The Midwest Book Review. Air Kissing on Mars, her first was described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache.” Slice of Moon was called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O” magazine, Last Train to the Missing Planet, “poems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness, memory and loss, fragility and perseverance,” said Richard Blanco, and Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave, won the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award Gold Medal for Poetry. Kim was City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from October 2016 – October 2018. Her work has been featured in numerous literary journals including Plume, Ploughshares,