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Special Guests at Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque presents special guests Dean Rader, Jonathan Silverman and Melissa Stein.

DEAN RADER's debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the prestigious T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize for 2010. Poems have appeared in dozens of magazines such as POOL, Quarterly West, and Colorado Review. In addition to poetry, he writes and blogs about politics and popular culture. He is a Professor at the University of San Francisco.

JONATHAN SILVERMAN is the author of Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). He is an assistant professor of English at University of Massachusetts Lowell and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He recently served as a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway.

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MELISSA STEIN ( www.melissastein.com) is the author of the poetry collection Rough Honey, winner of the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Best New Poets 2009, New England Review, Harvard Review and many other journals and anthologies.

 

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