Dean Rader has written, edited, or co-edited 11 books, including Works & Days, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and was just named a finalist for the Nona Balakian Award for excellence in reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.
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Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Roger Reeves’s “Best Barbarian”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider “Best Barbarian,” a collection of poems by Roger Reeves....
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Victoria Chang’s “The Trees Witness Everything”
Dean Rader and Jennifer Chang consider “The Trees Witness Everything” by Victoria Chang....
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of First Books: Amanda Moore’s “Requeening,” Paul Tran’s “All the Flowers Kneeling,” and Devon Walker-Figueroa’s “Philomath”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider Amanda Moore’s “Requeening,” Paul Tran’s “All the Flowers Kneeling,” and Devon Walker-Figueroa’s “Philomath.”...
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s “Dark Traffic”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider “Dark Traffic” by Joan Naviyuk Kane....
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Tracy K. Smith’s “Such Color: New and Selected Poems” and Arthur Sze’s “The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider “Such Color” by Tracy K. Smith and “The Glass Constellation” by Arthur Sze....
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Douglas Kearney’s “Sho”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider “Sho” by Douglas Kearney....
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Donika Kelly’s “The Renunciations”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader discuss “The Renunciations” by Donika Kelly....
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of G. C. Waldrep’s “The Earliest Witnesses”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider “The Earliest Witnesses” by G. C. Waldrep....
“More than Me”: On “How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”
Dean Rader considers “How to Carry Water” by Lucille Clifton....
America Starts Here: On “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry”
Dean Rader considers “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry,” edited by Joy Harjo....
Memory May Not Sustain
Where science fails, poetry succeeds. What time forgets, language remembers....
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