Dean Rader

Dean Rader has authored or co-authored 13 books, including Works & Days, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize; Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014); Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (2017); and Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly (2023). His work has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, Headlands Center for the Arts, Art Omi, and the MacDowell Foundation, and he was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Rader is a professor at the University of San Francisco.

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Drawing Out Twombly
Cy Twombly was all over New York and Dean Rader was there to see it.
Dean RaderJun 4
- Art & Architecture
The World Needed More Lorca
Dean Rader reviews “The Dream of Apples: Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca,” translated by Rebecca Seiferle.
Dean RaderNov 5, 2024
- Poetry
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Will Harris’s “Brother Poem” and Evie Shockley’s “Suddenly We”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader review Will Harris’s “Brother Poem” and Evie Shockley’s “Suddenly We.”
Dean Rader, Victoria ChangJul 13, 2023
- Poetry
- Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Jenny Xie’s “The Rupture Tense” and Monica Youn’s “From From”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader review Jenny Xie’s “The Rupture Tense” and Monica Youn’s “From From.”
Dean Rader, Victoria ChangMar 7, 2023
- Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue
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.
Dean Rader, Victoria ChangAug 2, 2022
- Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue
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.
Dean Rader, Jennifer ChangApr 26, 2022
- Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue
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.”
Dean Rader, Victoria ChangMar 28, 2022
- Poetry
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.
Dean Rader, Victoria ChangJan 5, 2022
- Poetry
- Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue

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