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 appears or will appear in POETRY, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, BOMB, Adroit Journal, Narrative, Zyzzyva, Best of the Net and others. His next collection of poems, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with Cy Twombly, is forthcoming in 2023 from Copper Canyon Press. Dean's writing has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, The Headlands Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Foundation, and the John R. Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, where, in 2019, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.

Other poems by Dean Rader in Verse Daily:
November 27, 2021:   "Ars Poetica II" "The world         asks us                 to carry its weight..."
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:
"Did You Walk to Oklahoma?"
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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