Dean Young has published several books of poetry, including his 2005 collection, Elegy on Toy Piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His collection Skid was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. Young has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and in the Warren Wilson Low Residency Program.

Other poems by Dean Young in Verse Daily:
December 15, 2002:  My People "Initially, I too appeared between the legs..."

Books by Dean Young: Primitive Mentor, Embryoyo, Elegy On Toy Piano, Beloved Infidel, Original Monkey, Skid, First Course In Turbulence, Strike Anywhere

Other poems on the web by Dean Young:
Two poems
"Poem Without Forgiveness"
"Ode to Hangover"
Three poems
Eleven poems
Two poems
"Sean Penn Anti-Ode"
"Peach Farm"

Dean Young according to Wikipedia.

About Primitive Mentor:

"Dean Young's poems are as entertaining as a three-ring circus and as imaginative as a canvas by Hieronymous Bosch. He is one of the most inventive and satisfying poets writing today."
—American Academy of Arts and Letters