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- Brian Komei Dempster and Dean Rader in conversation on the intersections of race, covid, poetry, and healing in the excellent Waxwing.
- Dean named a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing.
- Dean Rader named a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry for 2019.
- Dean Rader named a MacDowell Fellow for 2020.
- Watch Adam Ewing (vocal) & Barbie Noyes (piano) perform three poems from Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry set to music by award-winning composer Nathan Hall and performed by Pendulum New Music at the University of Colorado. Or, you can just listen to "Self-Portrait as Photograph Never Taken" - "Study of the Other Self: American Self-Portrait II" - "Apocryphal Self-Portrait"
- "History," selected for inclusion in the 2018 anthology Best of the Net.
- Rita Dove discusses "Frost on Fire" and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry in The New York Times Magazine.
- Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft, and Conversation, a ground-breaking anthology of recent Native American poetry and essays, co-edited by Dean and CMarie Fuhrman, released by Tupelo Press.
- Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry named a finalist for the Northern California Book Award.
- Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry named a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award.
- Danielle Susi talks to Dean about food for her "Dinnerware" column in Entropy.
- Dean in conversation with fellow Copper Canyon poet Melissa Stein about Cy Twombly, new books, and other matters of national interest in The Kenyon Review.
- Dean's poem "America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope" featured in David Roderick's State Lines series in The San Francisco Chronicle.
- A bearded Dean wins the (aptly named?) (ironically named?) Dean's Scholar Award at the University of San Francisco.
- They Said: An Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, edited by Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton & Jackie White makes Neon Pajama's Best Books of 2018 List & is a staff pick at Small Press Distribution. Read a fabulous review of They Said by Claire Ogilve and Caleigh Stephens here.
- Dean interviewed by Ingrid Vega about his poetry workshop for Zyzzyva.
- Dean interviewed by Jen Chien on KALW's Sights & Sounds.
- Dean and co-editors Brian Clements and Alexandra Teague published Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence in December 2017. Bullets into Bells brings together the voices of poets and citizens most impacted to call for the end of gun violence with the activist power of poetry. Reviews on Bullets into Bells in Poets & Writers, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and most recently, in The New York Times. Read an interview Isabel Erickson White conducted with Dean about the book here.
- Dean's essay in the San Francisco Chronicle about visiting W. S. Merwin in Hawaii for his (not Dean's) 90th birthday.
- Watch a video of Dean reading a poem in response to artwork by Leilani Bustamante
- Dean's poem about Charlottesville, race, slavery, (and parenting) in Kenyon Review Online.
- Dean featured along with Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others as a Bay Area Poet for Change.
- Listen to Dean talk about the necessity of poetry on KQED.
- Barbara Berman's smart, insightful, and kind review of Self-Portrait in The Rumpus.
- Dean named an Artist Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts for 2017-18.
- Amazingly generous review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry by Diana Whitney in The San Francisco Chronicle.
- The legendary City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco asks Dean Five Questions
- Smart review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry in Publisher's Weekly with a killer final sentence. Thanks, anonymous reviewer!
- Dean's advice for writers in the "Writers Recommend" column of Poets & Writers Magazine.
- See the gorgeous painting by Amanda Hughen & Jennifer Starkweather entitled Ocean Beach (Dean Rader), based on a conversation between Dean and the artists about the shifting Pacific shoreline, Oklahoma, and the Richmond District of San Francisco.
- "Sitting in the Cell Phone Waiting Lot at the San Francisco Airport, Awaiting My Father’s Arrival, I Write a Poem on the Day of Prince’s Death" goes up at The Awl.
- Featured by the University of San Francisco's Center for Research, Artistic, and Scholarly Excellence (CRASE). Thanks to Sara Fan, Saera Khan, and Christine Yeh.
- Dean's portfolio of poems, entitled American Self-Portrait, selected by Stephenie Burt for the 2015 George H. Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America. The Bogin Award is given for a set of poems "that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in its many forms."
- Landscape Portrait Figure Form receives a fantastic review by Elizabeth Savage in the excellent Jacket2.
- Landscape Portrait Figure Form makes a nice Best of List, alongside folks like Frank O'Hara, Brenda Shaughnessy, Brenda Hillman, and Ellen Bryant Voigt.
- Landscape Portrait Figure Form receives a couple of wonderful reviews in Zyzzyva (Maggie Millner) and The Rumpus (Barbara Berman).
- Generous and smart mini-profile by the multi-talented Evan Karp in support of Babylon Salon in The San Francisco Chronicle.
- Dean's Op-Ed in The San Francisco Chronicle on the value of the English major.
- Dean's poem "Self Portrait as Dido to Aeneas," which appeared in The Cincinnati Review, has been selected by Mark Doty for Best American Poetry 2012. Read more here.
- Fantastically generous review of Works & Days by the poet Zara Raab in Poetry Flash.
- Works & Days wins the 2010 Writer's League of Texas Award for Poetry!
- Dean named the Paris Hilton of poetry (well, sort of) in a super cool feature in SF Weekly.
- Dean and Gavin featured in gorgeous photo shoot of San Francisco Hip Dads.
- Dean's team loses in the First Annual Poetry World Series!
- Very smart and generous review of Works & Days by Benjamin Myers.
- Engaged Resistance reviewed in the San Francisco Book Review.
- Works & Days named a finalist for the 2010 Bob Bush Memorial Award for First Book Prize.
- Verse Daily includes Dean's poem "Twilight at Ocean Beach: 14" in their Best Poems of 2010.
- Extended interview (with great questions by a group of Chicago Poets) in Sharkforum.
- Great review of Works & Days in Eyewear.
- Nice review of Dean's reading at the Albany library in The Albany Patch.
- Dean's column in the City Brights section of The San Francisco Chronicle.
- Dean serves as the Guest Blogger at The Best American Poetry Blog.
- Dean featured in The Richmond Review.
- Dean asked about his poem "Self Portrait as Dido to Aeneas" in the new Cincinnati Review.
- Interview with Dean by Mary Ellen Hannibal in The Readers Review. October 19, 2010.
- Fun interview between Derek Mong and Dean at the Boxcar Poetry Review.
- Dean interviewed by Delia Tramontina, Nicholas Leaskou, and Jay Thomas on Poet as Radio. Listen to the podcast here.
- Dean a "Hip Dad" of San Francisco? (photo shoot with Gavin)
- Dean in conversation with Matthew Zapruder.
- Dean interviewed by J. P. Dancing Bear on KKUP
- Extended interview (with great questions by a group of Chicago Poets) in Sharkforum.
- Dean interviewed by Alan Farley for Book Talk as part of NPR's Podcast Series at KALW 91.7. January 2, 1011 Listen to the Podcast!
- Featured Poet: Dean Rader in the British Blog Eyewear.