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• "Still Life with Gratitude" read by Garrison Keillor on Mr. Keillor's final live Prairie Home Companion show in Minnesota. Listen here for free. 
• "Sitting in the Cell Phone Waiting Lot at the San Francisco Airport, Awaiting My Father’s Arrival, I Write a Poem on the Day of Prince’s Death" goes up at The Awl. 
• Featured by the University of San Francisco's Center for Research, Artistic, and Scholarly Excellence (CRASE). Thanks to Sara Fan, Saera Khan, and Christine Yeh. 
• Dean's portfolio of poems, entitled American Self-Portrait, was selected by Stephen Burt for the 2015 George H. Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America. The Bogin Award is given for a set of poems "that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in its many forms."

• Landscape Portrait Figure Form receives a fantastic review by Elizabeth Savage in the excellent Jacket2.
• Landscape Portrait Figure Form makes a nice Best of List, alongside folks like Frank O'Hara, Brenda Shaughnessy, Brenda Hillman, and Ellen Bryant Voigt.
• Landscape Portrait Figure Form receives a couple of wonderful reviews in Zyzzyva (Maggie Millner) and The Rumpus (Barbara Berman). 
• Generous and smart mini-profile by the multi-talented Evan Karp in support of Babylon Salon in The San Francisco Chronicle.
• Dean's Op-Ed in The San Francisco Chronicle on the value of the English major.
• Dean's poem "Self Portrait as Dido to Aeneas," which appeared in The Cincinnati Review, has been selected by Mark Doty for Best American Poetry 2012. Read more here.
• Fantastically generous review of Works & Days by the poet Zara Raab in Poetry Flash.
• Works & Days wins the 2010 Writer's League of Texas Award for Poetry!
• Dean named the Paris Hilton of poetry (well, sort of) in a super cool feature in SF Weekly.
• Dean and Gavin featured in gorgeous photo shoot of San Francisco Hip Dads.
• Dean's team loses in the First Annual Poetry World Series!
• Very smart and generous review of Works & Days by Benjamin Myers.
• Engaged Resistance reviewed in the San Francisco Book Review.
• Works & Days named a finalist for the 2010 Bob Bush Memorial Award for First Book Prize.
• Verse Daily includes Dean's poem "Twilight at Ocean Beach: 14" in their Best Poems of 2010
• Extended interview (with great questions by a group of Chicago Poets) in Sharkforum.
• Great review of Works & Days in Eyewear
• Nice review of Dean's reading at the Albany library in The Albany Patch
• Dean's column in the City Brights section of The San Francisco Chronicle
• Dean serves as the Guest Blogger at The Best American Poetry Blog.
• Dean featured in The Richmond Review
• Dean asked about his poem "Self Portrait as Dido to Aeneas" in the new Cincinnati Review
• Interview with Dean by Mary Ellen Hannibal in The Readers Review. October 19, 2010.

u p c o m i n g  a p p e a r a n c e s

SEPTEMBER 24

• 99 POEMS FOR THE 99 PERCENT: A READING AND DISCUSSION. With Julie Bruck, Joan Gelfand, Jose Luis Gutierrez, Barbara Berman, and Rachelle Escamilla. University of San Francisco. 12:45-1:45. Lone Mountain 357.
  

SEPTEMBER 25

• MILL VALLEY LIBRARY BEYOND THE BOOK BASH: With Adam Mansbach, NPR's Laura Sydell, singer/songwriter Frances England and many others. 8pm. 142 Throckmorten.

SEPTEMBER 27

• POETRY WORLD SERIES: THE SEATTLE VERSION. With Ed Skoog, Arlene Kim, Sarah Galvin, Kary Wayson, and Oliver de la Paz. Hugo House. Seattle, WA. 7-9pm. 

OCTOBER 11

• 826 VALENCIA'S POETS PICKING POETS LITQUAKE KICKOFF! With Cedar Sigo, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Tessa Micaela, Zoe Tuck, and Julian Talamantez Brolaski. A backward and forward reading of the 826/Academy of American Poets "Read This Poem" Project. 826 Valencia, 7-9pm. 

OCTOBER 13

• POETRY WORLD SERIES: THE LITQUAKE EDITION.               I am serving as a judge along with Pam Houston and Jewelle Gomez. The featured poets are Ada Limón, Alex Dimitrov, F. Douglas Brown, Christina Hutchins, Chad Sweeney, and Brynn Saito. This will be a great event. Daniel Handler is the MC! 7Pm @ The Make-Out Room. San Francisco.

OCTOBER 17

• THE ART OF POETRY PANEL & DISCUSSION. With Joseph Lease, Sara Mumolo, Brynn Saito, and Pireeni Sundaralingam. 11 am - 12:30 pm. Z Space. 450 Florida St. San Francisco. 

      

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