I Wore This Dress Today for You Mom

Writers Bloc Presents® and the Skirball Cultural Center celebrate motherhood with an afternoon of poetry from former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Kim Dower, who will also be joined in conversation by authors Lisa See and Hope Edelman. Just in time for Mother’s Day, Dower’s latest collection, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom, is an evocative and […]

This 90 minute poetry workshop is for poets and non-poets alike – for anyone who’d love to know how to plant the seeds for poems to grow. From the instructor: "Our time together will provide an opportunity to mine our memories and experiences, our hearts and feelings and potentially awaken new, startling poems. We will […]

A limited number of free tickets are available. You can also support Changing Hands by purchasing the book via Eventbrite below. Thank you! Kim Dover will be sharing work from her fifth collection, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom. ABOUT THE LIVE EVENT We're limiting attendance to allow for social distancing, so registration via Eventbrite […]

Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim's poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom is an anthology of her poems on being a mother--childbirth to empty nest--as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness, drama and conflict, to finally […]