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Featured Poet - Sunday, 6 May 07 at 9pm GMT

A member of Socan, he has performed his songs and poems in Toronto and California, with tapes available; edited/co-wrote a children’s book for Joe Rosenblatt; recipient of 2 unsolicited Ontario Arts Council awards; originated ‘Poet’s Corner’ on Q107FM where he did live readings of his poems and prose poems; letters between himself and Irving Layton (who taught Leonard Cohen, and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for literature) on file at Concordia University for study by Honors’ Graduate students.

He has over 400 poems and prose poems published since 1972 in over 130 literary publications in Canada, the USA, England, Australia, New Zealand, etc., such as Descant, Carleton Literary Review, Poetry WLU, The Prairie Journal, Freelance, Nexus, Bitterroot, Oxalis, Bogg, Aileron, RE:AL, Art Times, Pegasus, Impetus, On The Bus, and many others. More have been published in newspapers, magazines, online and in anthologies, recorded and paper.

http://www.deanjbaker.com/

I would say Dean's literary works rank among the truly talented and his poetry is outstanding. His poems are remarkable in the genres and style used and the depth of meaning profound even within the shorter poems, giving his work a sense of flexibility and adaptability which extends to the meaning.