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Kim
Dower, City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 –
October 2018), has published four collections of poetry, all with
Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars, described by the Los
Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining
humor and heartache,” Slice of Moon, 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,
winner of the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award
Gold Medal for Poetry. Nominated for five Pushcart Prizes,
Kim’s work has been featured in numerous literary journals including
Plume, Ploughshares, Rattle, The James Dickey Review,
Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac," and Ted Kooser’s
“American Life in Poetry.” Her poems are included in several
anthologies, notably, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond,
(Beyond Baroque Books/Pacific Coast Poetry Series,) and Coiled
Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los
Angeles, (Tia Chucha Press.) She teaches poetry workshops for
Antioch University, UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, West Hollywood
Library and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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