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Dec.22.2011 - 11:41 am
When Bay Area poets Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, and Geoffery G. O'Brien were beaten by police during a peaceful protest at Occupy Berkeley, the answer to the question the...
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Aug.16.2011 - 2:09 pm
When it was announced last week that Philip Levine was going to be the next Poet Laureate of the Untied States, the American poetry scene experienced a rare moment of unified...
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Jul.20.2011 - 10:40 pm
At the minimum, there are five weeks of summer left. For some, close to eight. There is no way you have read as much as you wanted this summer, even if you have perused the PDF...
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Jun.04.2011 - 4:46 pm
For most universities on the semester system, graduation has flung its mortarboard into the air and begun its glorious slumber. The poor students on quarters are still slogging...
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Interview with Dean Rader
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Best Books of Poems for 2009
Published Reviews
Jan.17.2011
Published by Eyewear
Dean Rader’s book is full of vast expanses. The title is taken directly from Hesiod (a bold reference for a debut collection). The original was a key work of classical literature...
About Dean
Dean Rader is a professor in the Department of English at the University of San Francisco and is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Research Award. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and is a...
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