Dean Rader has authored or co-authored eleven books, including Works & Days, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, named a Best Book of the Year by the Barnes & Noble Review, and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. Recent work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harvard Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Southern Review, BOMB, Ploughshares, Poetry Review (UK), and Best of the Net. His writing has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, the Headlands Center for the Arts and the MacDowell Foundation. Rader is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.

Other poems by Dean Rader in Verse Daily:
August 16, 2017:   "The beautiful American word, Sure" w/ Simone Muench "The beautiful American word, Sure..."
March 13, 2017:   "America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope" "America, I do not call your name without hope..."
January 11, 2011:   "Ocean Beach at TwiIight: 14" "Who's to say the stars understand..."

Books by Dean Rader:

Other poems on the web by Dean Rader:
Four poems
"History"
"Relational Self Portrait"
Two poems
Three poems
"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"
"Elegy Pantoum"
"Untitled Self-Portrait"
Four poems

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