with Simone Muench
[How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder]
[Near dusk, near a path, near a brook]
[Shadow, you’ll travel to what waits ahead]
Dean Rader’s most recent book, Landscape Portrait Figure Form (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014), was named by the Barnes & Noble Review as one of the best poetry books of the year. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days (Truman State University Press, 2010), won the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Rader edited the 2013 poetry collection 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry (The Press). He is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco.
Photo by Gavin Rader