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Kim Dower is the former City Poet Laureate for West Hollywood, CA. Author of five highly-acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Los Angeles Times bestseller and 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, I Wore This Dress Today for You Mom--“Fantastic collection” – Washington Post, “Impressively insightful, thought-provoking, and truly memorable”--The Midwest Book Review; the 2020 Gold IPPY Award winner, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave; Air Kissing on Mars--“sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache”--Los Angeles Times and Slice of Moon, “unexpected and sublime”-- “O” magazine. Dower’s poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” as well as in many anthologies and journals, including Ploughshares, The James Dickey Review, Plume and Barrow Street. She teaches poetry workshops for UCLA Extension, and the West Hollywood Library. Born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Kim lives with her family in West Hollywood, California. www.kimdowerpoetry.com.
