Kim Dower reads and discusses with host Lisa Grove three poem from her third collection, Last Train to the Missing Planet (Red Hen Press, 2016). Her first collection, Air Kissing on Mars, (Red Hen Press, 2010) was on the Poetry Foundation's Contemporary Best Sellers list. Her work has been featured in Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac" 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, (Beyond Baroque Books, 2015) and Coiled Serpent: Poets arising from the cultural quakes and shifts of Los Angeles (Tia Chucha Press, 2016).