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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)
- Read Dean's elegy for John Ashbery (which is also an homage to "Paradoxes and Oxymorons") in Harvard Review. Big shout out to Chloe Garcia Roberts for running this poem and including a photo of Ashbery's actual typewriter that is kept in Harvard's Woodbury Poetry Room.
- Another poem about a poet very important to me, W. S. Merwin, appeared in the inaugural issue of Not For Resale. This one, called "Garden Time," is about attending Merwin's 90th birthday party in Hawaii.
- An experimental elegy to Dean's father in the marvelous Guesthouse (thanks Jane Huffman).
- Read and hear the poet discuss two winter/light poems in the EcoTheo Review (thanks to Crystal Oliver, Jason Myers, and Sharon Yao).
- "This is No Time for Poetry," one of three poems to appear in issue 20.1. Big thanks to Lisa Ampleman & Taylor Byas for running these poems & nominating this poem for inclusion in the Best Spiritual Literature anthology.
- "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 the poet writes 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" appears 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 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).
- "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.
- 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
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