dean rader
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PictureLimited edition broadside created and published by Now It's Up to You Publications & Poor Man's Press, Denver, Colorado.
  • "History" selected for inclusion in the Best of the Net anthology. Thank you Kenyon Review and Sundress Publications.
  • Rita Dove discusses Dean's poem "Frost on Fire" and ​Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry in The New York Times Magazine.
  • "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.
  • 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.
  • "Elegy Pantoum," a poem for Dean's late father, in the inaugural issue of Palette, and now nominated for a Pushcart Prize.​
  • "Still Life with Cacography," featuring Dean's son, the word "fart," and Donald Trump in Zyzzyva.
  • "History," a poem about race, slavery, parenting, and Charlottesville, in Kenyon Review.
  • Three new poems, including an homage to W. S. Merwin, featured in The Rumpus
  • "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
  • Poem about Prince's death, Dean's father, and flight at The AWL​
  • "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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"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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