{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Bottled Water","description":"The simplest of things can become quite complicated! Kim Dower, City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 \u2013 October 2018), has published four collections of poetry, all with Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars, described by the Los Angeles Times as, \u201csensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache,\u201d Slice of Moon, called \u201cunexpected and sublime,\u201d by \u201cO\u201d magazine, Last Train to the Missing Planet, \u201cpoems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness, memory and loss, fragility and perseverance,\u201d said Richard Blanco, and Sunbathing on Tyrone Power\u2019s Grave, which Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick, calls exuberant, sexy and sobering.\u201d Nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, Kim\u2019s work has been featured in Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac," and Ted Kooser\u2019s \u201cAmerican Life in Poetry,\u201d as well as in Ploughshares, Barrow Street, and Rattle. 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 and Dreaming in the B.A. Program of Antioch University and Wake Up Your Prose for UCLA Extension. You can connect with Kim through her website:  www.kimdowerpoetry.com.   ","author_name":"Journey Daily with a Compelling Poem","author_url":"http:\/\/journeydailywithacompellingpoem.libsyn.com\/website","html":"