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Kim (Freilich) Dower is the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Born and raised in New York City she received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College where she also taught creative writing. She has published three collections of poetry, all with Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars, (2010) was on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary Best Sellers list, and was described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache.” Slice of Moon, (2013), was nominated for a Pushcart, Last Train to the Missing Planet (2016) was called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O” magazine. Kim’s work has been featured in Garrison Keillor's, "The Writer's Almanac," Academy of American Poets, “Poem-a-Day,” and Ted Kooser's, "American Life in Poetry," as well as in Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Rattle and Eclipse. Her poems are included in the anthologies, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, published by The Pacific Coast Poetry Series, an imprint of Beyond Baroque Books, and Coiled Serpent: Poets arising from the cultural quakes and shifts of Los Angeles. Kim teaches the workshops Poetry and Dreaming and Poetry and Memory in the B.A. Program of Antioch University. She’s also known as Kim-from-L.A., the name of her literary publicity company. She lives in West Hollywood, California.

For more information about Kim and her work, check out her interview with The Writer's Almanac.

 

 

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