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Lit Crawl L.A. rocked the bars and restaurants of the NoHo Arts District on Wednesday night, October 22nd featuring an interesting cross-section of L.A.'s literary scene at 30 locations. Held in three-45-minute rounds, this progressive literary carnival hosted more than 170 writers and poets, including Red Hen Press poets, Kim Dower and Ron Koertge. Huge crowds, balmy October night, and the best words in the best order!

VIEW PHOTOS FROM LIT CRAWL L.A. HERE.

KIM'S APPEARANCE AT THE HISTORIC ANNENBERG COMMUNITY BEACH HOUSE!
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AMERICAN LIFE IN POETRY
Kim Dower's poetry appears at www.americanlifeinpoetry.org!
Kim's poem, "Bottled Water," is presented in Ted Kooser's column. Click here to download the column. Newspapers carrying their column will will also present Kim's poem. Current newspaper readership for the column is approximately 3,000,000 per week!

SHELF AWARENESS "IMAGE OF THE DAY"
Kim was featured in a recent Shelf Awareness!  Here's the entry:

Kim's poem "Bottled Water" is featured on a recent WRITER'S ALMANAC!
For those who did not catch the broadcast, you can listen to it here.

ALSO...

Kim's poem "They're Taking Chocolate Milk Off the Menu"  featured on THE WRITER'S ALMANAC
For those who did not catch the broadcast, you can listen to it here.

Visit the the show's website here.

REVIEWS: SLICE OF MOON

AMERICAN LIFE IN POETRY
Kim Dower's poetry appears at www.americanlifeinpoetry.org!
Kim's poem, "Bottled Water," is presented in Ted Kooser's column. Click here to download the column. Newspapers carrying their column will will also present Kim's poem. Current newspaper readership for the column is approximately 3,000,000 per week!

O Magazine - December 2013 issue
for the Poetic Soul ...
“Unexpected and sublime.”
SLICE OF MOON recommended in the December, 2013 issue of O Magazine
Poetry set in the dressing room of Loehmann’s or inspired by a school cafeteria menu: unexpected and sublime.
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“Dower (Air Kissing on Mars) returns after a break from publishing with these mostly narrative poems that mine detail with a whimsy bordering on hysteria. In this collection, the speaker manages to squirt too much mustard on her hotdog, have a huge tooth pulled (‘extracting my brain, forcing every thought/ I ever had out of my head’), and buy an iPhone with an app that lets users go back to pioneer life in 1872 (‘my girls tug at my berry-stained apron—mom, let’s bake—in my real world I didn’t bake/ but with this app I can’). She tells us what a boyfriend likes in bed (‘my other girlfriend lets me’) and why a girlfriend prefers sex with skinny guys. But a serious thread runs through these poems: caring for a mother who has dementia. And tucked in also are quiet poems from another place—a short lyric about the Santa Ana wind with a tender ending and a vivid recollection of a now deceased high school boyfriend, a moving blend of sexual experimentation and loss.”
-- Library Journal

"The poems are bold and sexy and smart."
-- Stephen Dunn

"Slice of Moon is a dark chocolate fever dream of love, of mothers. Kim Dower dares you into the dark. You may find yourself lurking there."
-- Erica Jong

“Kim Dower’s remarkable first book, Air Kissing on Mars, was on fire. Slice of Moon burns even hotter, its flames rising even higher.”
-- Thomas Lux

REVIEWS: AIR KISSING ON MARS

"Sensual and evocative, these poems traverse the chaos of everyday life with a light touch that can turn ironic and edgy without you even noticing it. Some are lyrical snapshots of life's bittersweet moments, while others seamlessly combine humor and heartache."
-- LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Air Kissing on Mars," showcases Kim Dower's funny, accessible, sneaky-profound poetry. She's more Billy Collins than John Ashbery and has some of the same sharp Southern California perspective as Joan Didion, driving down the freeway in "The White Album."
-- OREGONIAN

“Sometimes miracles happen: a gifted, already accomplished young poet puts away her poems for years, even decades, and then the poems begin to pour forth again—tumultuous, wild with poetry’s particular fever (the Russians call it Nightingale Fever). But, but, sometimes—tempered by a rich inner life, fed by wisdom and knowledge one gets walking up and down upon the earth with all of one’s senses fully alert, tempered by years of caring for others—sometimes, this fever can turn into art, as it has here, in poem after poem. This combination: a crazy young poet and a grown-up (still a little bit crazy) poet makes a rare and astonishing first book, which is more like a seventh or eight book! As aforementioned: it’s a kind of miracle, I tell you, a kind of miracle!”
-- Thomas Lux

“Kim Dower’s poetry is absolutely charming and compelling. She combines humor and heartbreak, while exploring the personal and universal. Her poems are both accessible and profound. What I love most is that the poet herself is so present in her images and emotions. What a big, beautiful, generous, and funny heart she has!”
-- Lisa See

“Kim Dower writes jazzy, sassy, sexy poems that move fast, are full of surprise and tweak the heartstrings like Arkhipovsky tweaks the balalaika.”
-- Stephen Dobyns

"Air Kissing on Mars is the real thing--a real book by a real poet."
-- Erica Jong

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