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P O E M S​
  • "Beyond the Borderless: Dean Rader/Cy Twombly." Two new poems accompanied by Twombly paintings in Narrative.
  • "In Which Twombly & Rader Consider the Letter" in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. Eds Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Dereck Sheffield. Trinity University Press, 2020.
  • "The Fire that Consumes All before It," a poem that enters into conversation with Twombly's massive ten-part painting Fifty Days at Iliam, accompanied by an interview about the poem, painting, and ekphrasis in Rappahannock Review.
  • "Meditation on Circulation," a poem responding to Cy Twombly's Untitled (1967) in the inaugural issue of The West Review.
  • "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. ​
  • "Once Again in Thought about Rilke, Twombly's Orpheus Paintings, and Fatherhood, I Consider the Inevitability of Creation and Loss" in New England Review, Winter 2019.
  • "Unending Octet," a poem from a larger series that enters into conversation with Cy Twombly's Untitled (1969) in Waxwing.
  • "Octet: A Fragment" + "Unfinished Sonnet" with drawings by Cy Twombly, in Zyzzyva 112, 2018.
  • "Meditation on Mimesis: Cy Twombly's Poems to the Sea" in Southern Review, Winter 2020.
  • "Octets after Cy Twombly: The Ferragosto Series" in Cherry Tree, issue 5, 2019.
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C O L L A B O R A T I O N S   W I T H   T H O M A S   I N G M I R E
  • Two unique artist books with calligraphy by Thomas Ingmire and poetry by Dean Rader
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E S S A Y S
  • "Notes on Williams, Abstraction, and the Line," an experimental essay on William Carlos Williams, abstraction, poetry, and Cy Twombly in The Kenyon Review.
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I N T E R V I E W S
  • "Goth Tendencies, Cy Twombly, and Turnstile Hearts: A Conversation with Melissa Stein & Dean Rader" in The Kenyon Review.
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Picture
Cy Twombly, Untitled (New York), 1970

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