Willow Glen Library and Poetry Center San Jose are pleased to present Dean Rader who will be reading from his work. An open mic reading will follow. All are welcome to bring a poem of their own or by a favorite poet to share.

Dean Rader is a professor of English at USF who has published widely in the fields of poetry, American Indian studies, and popular culture. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and is a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters First Book Prize and the Writer's League of Texas Poetry Award.