Writers on Writing: Dean Rader
Sunday, February 24, 2013, 4:00 pm
Poet Dean Rader discusses his collection Works and Days. Rader has published widely in poetry, American Indian studies and popular culture. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Bob Bush Memorial Award for a First Book of Poems and won the 2010 Writer's League of Texas Poetry Prize. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Humanities Auditorium
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Sponsor:
Creative Writing Department
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415-338-1891
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Rader’s poem from the book Twilight at Ocean Beach: 14 was named by Verse Daily as one of the Best Poems of 2010, and others have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2011 he was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Louis Hammer Award, and last year his poem Self Portrait as Dido to Aeneas was selected for Best American Poetry, 2012. Rader is professor and chair of English at University of San Francisco.
The Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public every Monday evening of the semester. Taught by Professor Camille Dungy, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.