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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)

• "Did You Walk to Oklahoma" - a poem that talks to Ocmulgee by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, appears in the July/August issue of POETRY (thank you Esther Belin, Angela Flores, and Lindsay Garbutt). 
• In which I write a proper love poem, an epithalamium, in fact: "Poem Begun During Separation but Completed in Union" in Narrative Magazine (thanks Carol Edgarian). 
• "Meditation on Remembering or a Golden Shovel for Sappho and Breonna Taylor" featured in Verse Daily and originally published in Bennington Review (thanks JP Dancing Bear).​
• "Meditation on Absolution," which talks to this painting by Cy Twombly, is featured in the new issue of Bennington Review. An homage to Twombly, Sappho, and Breonna Taylor appears in the print version of this excellent magazine (Thank you Katrina Turner and Michael Dumanis).
• "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).
• "Dear Victoria" in Adroit Journal (thank you Peter LaBerge, David Roderick, and the Adroit Poetry crew).
• "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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