Dean Rader

Dean Rader is an American writer and professor who teaches at the University of San Francisco, in the Department of English, where he has also served as Department Chair.^[1] Rader holds a M.A. & Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton where he studied translation, poetry, visual culture, and literary studies. He is primarily known for his poems that mix high and low art and his scholarly work on Native American poetry.

His "Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry" was posted on ZYZZYVA on February 6, 2012.^[2]

Literary work

In addition to his teaching, Rader is a prolific reviewer, a scholar of film and art, and an award winning poet. His poem "Hesiod in Oklahoma, 1934" won the Sow's Ear Review poetry prize in 2009, judged by Kelly Cherry.^[3] Rader's debut poetry collection, Works and Days, won the 2010 Truman State University T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, judged by Claudia Keelan.^[4][5] Works & Days was also named a finalist for the Bob Bush Memorial First Book Award,^[6] and it won the Writer's League of Texas Book Award for Poetry.^[7]

Rader's most recent collection, Landscape Portrait Figure Form (Omnidawn 2014) a book that explores the connection between poetry and painting, was named by the Barnes & Noble Review as one of the year's Best Books of Poems. He was also the recipient of the George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Harvard poet and critic Stephen Burt selected a folio of Rader's poems entitled "American Self-Portrait" for the 2015 award.

In 2011, Rader wrote a series of columns for The San Francisco Chronicle on The 10 Greatest Poets, which received media coverage in The New York Times.^[8][9]

That same year, Rader began a blog called 99 Poems for the 99 Percent which posted 99 poems over 99 days.^[10] The blog featured poems by well-known writers like LeAnne Howe, Matthew Zapruder, Robert Pinsky, Martha Collins, Heid Erdrich, Edward Hirsch, Timothy Donnelly, Maxine Chernoff, Camille T. Dungy, and Bob Hicok as well as beginning and non-professional poets. In 2014, 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry, was published in book form. In August, it debuted at #2 on the Small Press Distribution Poetry Bestseller List and in September, it took over the #1 spot.

Other awards and fellowships

• Fellowships at Harvard University and Princeton University ^[11]
• Poetry prizes from Crab Orchard Review and Common Ground Review, 2007 ^[12]
• National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San Francisco, 2009–2010.
• Editor, Studies in American Indian Literature

Works

Books

• Rader, Dean, editor; Gould, Janice (2003). Speak to me words: essays on contemporary American Indian poetry. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0816523487.
• Silverman, Jonathan; Rader, Dean (2008). The world is a text: writing, reading and thinking about visual and popular culture (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780136033455.
• Rader, Dean (2010). Works & days. New odyssey series. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. ISBN 9781935503088.
• Rader, Dean (2011). Engaged resistance: American Indian art, literature, and film from Alcatraz to the NMAI. The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere (1st ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292723993.

Online publications

• The Weekly Rader, blog
• 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, blog
• "Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry". ZYZZYVA. 2012-02-06.
• "While working on a translation of "Walking around", I Imagine Neruda Trapped in the Snowstorm Outside My Window". Poetry Magazines - FIRE (No. 26). 2005.
• Rader, Dean (2007-05-21). "Core value". SFGate.

References

1. University of San Francisco Page
2. "Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry". ZYZZYVA. 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
3. Sow's Ear Poetry Award Announcement
4. "Fresh Ink". SFGate. 2010-02-21. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
5. "Works and Days". Truman State University Press. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
6. Award Finalists Announced
8. "The Top 10 Poets: Who are the Greatest? – City Brights: Dean Rader – an SFGate.com blog". The San Francisco Chronicle.
9. Harris, Rachael Lee (2011-03-06). "The 10 Best Poets". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
10. 99 Poems for the 99 Percent
11. "Dean Rader". Retrieved 2013-10-18.
12. Crab Creek News: Crab Pot Poetry Contest Results and Our First Fiction Contest To Begin Soon

External links

• Dean Rader's website
• Dean Rader, University of San Francisco page
• Matthew Zapruder and Rader in conversation, Huffington Post
• Review of Works & Days in Poetry Flash
• Stuff White People Like: A Blog Review