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from "Meditation on Transmission" in TOGETHER IN A SUDDEN STRANGENESS: AMERICA'S POETS RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC, Ed. Alice Quinn (Knopf, 2020)

• "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader," featured on the final day of National Poetry Month as part of the Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day series. (thank you Jane Hirshfield)
• "Meditation on Apophasis" in the U.K.'s legendary Poetry Review . (thank you Astra Papachristodoulou & Michael Simms)
• "What We Let Out" a poem that responds to a work of art by Akira Serene for the rather remarkable global art game, Telephone. (thank you Nathan Langston)
• "Meditation on Absence" in Tupelo Quarterly. (Thank you Kristina Marie Darling and Jeffrey Levine)
• "Meditation on Transmission," a poem responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, in The San Francisco Chronicle. (Thank you John Diaz)
• "Meditation on Vulnerability" in Harvard Review. (Thank you Major Jackson & Chloe Garcia Roberts)
• Two poems about two different kinds of war at Terrain.org. (Thank you Simmons Bunting, Derek Sheffield, and Elizabeth Dodd)
• "Troubled by Thoughts About Infinity and Oblivion, I Exit the Twombly Retrospective at Dusk and Walk the High Line with the Ghost of My Father," a new poem featured at The New England Review. (Thank you, Rick Barot)
• "Meditation on Mimesis" from The Southern Review. Click here to hear Dean read the poem and see his son photo bombing the overly earnest author photo. (Thank you Jessica Faust)
• "History" selected for inclusion in the Best of the Net anthology. Thank you Kenyon Review and Sundress Publications. (Thank you Kirsten Reach, Kenyon Review & Sundress)
• Rita Dove discusses Dean's poem "Frost on Fire" and ​Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry in The New York Times Magazine. (Thank you Ms. Dove)
• "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year" featured in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series. (Thank you Victoria Chang)
• Four new poems in Waxwing, including "Nocturne" (featured at the San Francisco Public Library) and "Unending Octet," a poem from a larger series that enters into conversation with the work of Cy Twombly. (Thank you Todd Kaneko)
• "Elegy Pantoum," a poem for Dean's late father, in the inaugural issue of Palette; "Special Mention" in the 2019 Pushcart Prizes
• "Still Life with Cacography," featuring Dean's son, the word "fart," and Donald Trump in Zyzzyva. (Thank you Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon)
• "History," a poem about race, slavery, parenting, and Charlottesville, in Kenyon Review. (Thank you Kirsten Reach)
• Three new poems, including an homage to W. S. Merwin, featured in The Rumpus. (Thank you Tiffany Midge)
• "American Self-Portrait IV" featured at the fabulous Poetry Daily
• "Self-Portrait with Reader," the opening poem from Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, is featured for World Poetry Day and on Page One of Poets & Writers. Thanks Copper Canyon Press & Poets & Writers Magazine
• "America, I Do Not Call Your Name Without Hope" ran in The San Francisco Chronicle ​three days after the November 8 presidential election. (Thank you John McMurtrie)
• Poem about Prince's death, Dean's father, and flight at The AWL​. (Thank you Mark Bibbins)
• "Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando," a Poem-a-Day, from the Academy of American Poets, September 14, 2016
• Portfolio of new poems from Narrative Magazine, including the ghazal about Oklahoma, "Geographic Self-Portrait"
• "Alternate Self-Portrait" a Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, December 30, 2015. 
• "Sphere of Influence or Praise Song for the Warriors" - original poem commissioned by The San Francisco Chronicle
• "American Self-Portrait" on the Poetry Society of America Website
• Listen to Dean read his poem "The Dissection" from The Southern Review while looking at a ginormous photo of him in glasses and a tie
• "Relational Self-Portrait" in Kenyon Review Online (with audio)
• "American Psalm" in Boston Review
• "Paul Klee's Winter Journey at the Beginning of Summer" in Kestrel
• "Forecast" in TriQuarterly
• "Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry" in Zyzzyva
• "Swimming with the Mishibizhiw: Three Dreams" in Wake: Great Lakes Thought and Culture
• Two new poems in the inaugural issue of Jet Fuel Review
• Three poems, an interview, and a brief bio on Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum's
  Poem of the Week site
• "Twilight at Ocean Beach: 14" featured in Verse Daily

• four poems featured in Sharkforum

• two poems from DMQ Review

• two poems from the British magazine Fire

• a poem about Wallace Stevens featured in the British blog Eyewear
• four poems in POOL

• three poems (with audio) from the Borderlands Web Audio Project
  
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t w o   b r o a d s i d e s

"Ocean Beach at Twilight: 14." Limited edition by the Soybean Press, University of Illinois. 48 signed and numbered letterpress editions.

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"The First Poem." Winner, 2013 Red Berry Editions Spring Broadside Contest. 

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