Dean Rader's Poetry Reading

Last Thursday, October 19th, poet Dean Rader visited us to read from his recently-published collection, Self-Portrait as a Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon, 2017).

Dean Rader’s debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book of the year. He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the 2016 Common Good Books Prize, judged by Garrison Keillor, and the 2015 George Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, judged by Stephen Burt. His most recent scholarly book is Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI (2011).

Rader teaches English at the University of San Francisco, where he has also served as Department Chair. He writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and The Huffington Post. Two new collections of poetry appeared in 2017: A book of collaborative sonnets, written with Simone Muench, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, about which Publisher’s Weekly writes, “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”

Read Rader's new poem, History, at Kenyon Review Online.