About this Event
Former City Poet Laureate for West Hollywood, Kim Dower leads a writing workshop at Changing Hands Phoenix.
Through prompts and fun exercises as well as positive, constructive, nonjudgmental feedback offered in a cozy and creative environment, each student will receive encouragement and unique recognition and will go home with work they can develop into poems. By the end of the workshop, students will have awakened fresh and exciting ideas and good beginnings for their own love poems!
WORKSHOP DETAILS
- Cost: A copy of What She Wants per person.
- Register below.
- Please have paper and pen or an electronic device to write on.
- Refunds will not be issued within one day of the event.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Kim Dower, born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is the former City Poet Laureate for West Hollywood, California. She is the 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; the 2020 Gold IPPY Awards winner, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave; Air Kissing on Mars; and Slice of Moon. 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, James Dickey Review, Plume, and Barrow Street. She teaches poetry workshops for Antioch University, UCLA Extension, and the West Hollywood Library. Kim lives with her family in West Hollywood, California.
This event is at our Phoenix location at 300 West Camelback Road, steps from the uptown Light Rail stop and directly across from the Park and Ride at Third Ave and Camelback.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Changing Hands Bookstore, 300 West Camelback Road, Phoenix, United States
USD 23.74
