Dean Rader

Fans of poetry (that's you), fans of art (definitely you), and fans of scribbles (your former you), join @bethspotswood and me tomorrow (Wednesday) for live (and lively) discussion on Cy Twombly as part of the @AltaJournal Alta Live series. Register now: altaonline.com/events/a650297…

@becimay Rilke, “ the archaic torso of Apollo”

Am writing an essay on last lines. Let me know if you think of any good ones.

@becimay Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”

@aliner The best

Going back to my staple at 13.

@SpencerPI Boo! I remember the time I lost an extra long left handed 4-iron at Chabot- literally how many people in the Bay Area could really have used that club

Someone not turn in my 56-degree wedge. Happened Alameda last week. What dirtbag not return a club? Flat tire for them soon I hope.

@TheACCnz @SpencerPI — was that you?

It wasn’t easy but success never is… Last night’s Eden Park Streaker showed will and determination that would match any seen on the field in the ground’s illustrious history!

@SpencerPI Not unlike your golf swing

Have faith in your consistent efforts. It’s what you can control.

2024: year of personal validation. Private investigators toil and toil and don’t always have payoffs. I pried the Gary Murphy casefile from the jaws of police bureaucrats when attorneys turned me down. Plus, a couple big criminal defense wins and good outcomes in personal injury.

@laypay @CopperCanyonPrs Congratulations Pressmate! Excited for this.

@randallmannpoet You’ll be great!

Excited to be the August 2025 Guest Editor for Poem-a-Day! And share some wonderful poems. ❤️

Fun to wake up to this feature in the @nytimes on poems responding to Taylor Swift songs. I love seeing my poem in conversation with all the cool poets (@JoyHarjo @Tessathon @ilya_poet @KelliAgodon) + TS herself! Thanks Jennifer Harlan + Kristie Daugherty nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@SpencerPI Butter!

Ruff day, I home late for her dinner so she somehow found and opened three boxes of biscuit mix and spread it all over house.

@janechuffman RIP - it was and it is a great magazine

I keep having dreams about Guesthouse. I don’t think I have fully processed how hard my heart broke when I shut the doors. Maybe someday she will have a second life. 🥹

If there are any people still on this site who actually read books, you are invited to join us for the West Coast launch of invisible strings! Poets respond to Taylor Swift songs. 12/4 - 5pm pacific ⁦@KimAddonizio⁩ ⁦@KelliAgodon⁩ ⁦@usfca⁩

What is happening? Poems about paintings? Whose writing them? Victoria Chang, William Carlos Williams, Louise Erdrich, Charles Simic, Monica Youn, Robert Hayden and YOU! Less than 24 hours until this super fun seminar begins - only a few spots left! writerscenter.org/calendar/rader/

@jorie_graham So so happy for you!

@SpencerPI I was witness

Four rounds of golf, not a ball lost. The one I had thought had lost just off par 3 green in a little water. Back-handed 56-degree wedge to fringe, 2-putt. Yay, me!

Thanks - big thanks - to Cid Galicia for this lovely and thoughtful and candid review of Before the Borderless - hominumjournal.org/post/dean-rada… - @CopperCanyonPrs @usfca

@SpencerPI Happy B-Day Pa Spencer!

Dad is 94 today. At 21 and a pic today of four generations, 6-94.

@PaisleyRekdal @AGNIMagazine that's a good one

Hey - thanks! glad you found this.