Pugs Win the Day Over German Shepherds

Dog Talk (And Kitties Too!) (04-13-2019) #618: Featuring Kim Dower, Nathan Hall, and Susan Ward. Kim Dower reads from her new collection of poems, SUNBATHING ON TYRONE POWERS’ GRAVE, describing how dogs see something in nothing and lick our faces as if they were made of sugar; Nathan Hall, assistant professor at Texas Tech University’s […]

Beautiful Poems About Dogs

AUTHORS ON ANIMALS (04-10-2017) #129: Poet Kim Dower reads some of her delicious poems about dogs, including “Why People Really Have Dogs” from her Red Hen Press collection SLICE OF MOON as well as from her poetry collection AIR KISSING ON MARS. MP3 Audio [10 MB]DownloadShow URL

What to Call Your New Dog? What Name Can You Give Love?

On this week’s Dog Talk I interviewed Kim Dower, a wonderful California poet who read aloud many of her dog-themed poems. I was struck by one in particular, that will be appearing for the first time in her upcoming third book of poetry, Last Train to the Missing Planet. She gave me permission to reprint […]

Beautiful Poems About Dogs

Dog Talk (and Kitties Too!) (01-30-2016) #458: Poet Kim Dower reads some of her beautiful poems about dogs, including “Why People Really Have Dogs” (http://kimdowerpoet.com/poems-slice/dogs.htm) from her Red Hen Press collection “Slice of Moon” (http://kimdowerpoet.com/poems-slice_of_moon.htm) as well as from “Air Kissing on Mars” (http://kimdowerpoet.com/poems-air_kissing_on_mars.htm); Jamie Berger, from the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, talks […]