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West Hollywood Appoints New Poet Laureate
Two Year Term Begins With "Jacaranda"...spring really can hang you up the most when a poem forever Flowers on the page.
Charles Flowers was appointed West Hollywood's new City Poet Laureate last week and will serve a two-year term, as did his predecessor, Kim Dowers.
A resident of West Hollywood since 2010, Charles Flowers graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University, where he took his first poetry workshop with Mark Jarman and won the Academy of American Poets College Prize. (A PATCH story incorrectly reported Eloise Klein Healy had been named Dowers successor, after a "Weho Reads" event with Dower; she actually had been the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. )
Charles Flowers' poem, "Jacaranda" can be found at: https://www.weho.org/Home/Comp...
(Photo by Tony Coelho, Courtesy of the City of West Hollywood)