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Congratulations to Robert L. Dean, Jr. D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr. has been nominated for The Best of the Net Anthology for his poem "Pete & Bella," which appeared in the September 2019 issue of Shot Glass Journal (Issue #29). Shot Glass Journal is an online journal of short poetry, 16 lines or less, edited by Mary-Jane Grandinetti, and published by Muse-Pie Press, R. G. Rader, publisher. You can read the poem at http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/issue29/robert_l_dean_jr1.html   Congratulations to D5 member, Gretchen Eick, and the following Kansas Authors Club members who were published in this anthology: Ronda Miller (D2), Jim Potter (D6), Mark McCormick (D5), Judy Keller Hatteberg (D5), Robert Dean (D5), Michael Poage (D5), Julie Baker Brinn (D7), Mike Graves (D2), Ruth Maus (D1), Julie Stielstra (D6), Mark Scheel (D2), Miriam Iwashige (D6), Najiyah Maxfield (D6), Janet Stotts (D1), and Diane Wahto (D5). PRESS RELEASE September 20, 2020 The Death Project: An Anthology for These Times is now in print and available to order at your favorite bookstore and Amazon. This book is a 205 page anthology of stories, poems, mini memoirs, and factual pieces about the various ways we lose loved ones to death and how we grieve and heal. It is a collaboration by 36 writers from across the US, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Turkey, etc. who contributed their writing to help others suffering from grief or anticipation of grief. It is intended to expand readers' thinking, feeling, and imagining about this universal, often-hidden experience brought relentlessly to the world's consciousness in 2020. The writers are Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Bah'ais, atheists, and New Age, and of different races and ethnicities. Some write of family loss including suicide, others of war or devastating illness, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Others share rituals that helped them recover. Published by Blue Cedar Press (Wichita, KS) and edited by Dr. Gretchen Eick and Cora Poage, proceeds from the sales of The Death Project after the cost of publication and shipping will go to an assortment of international organizations fighting COVID-19. $12 paperback, $7 ebook (epub and Kindle). For more information contact: Gretchen Eick, 316-682-8818 [email protected] We want to help you share your writing news!  If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form.
Special, Limited Time Offer on Robert Dean's Ekphrastic Book, "The Aerialist Will Not be Performing"8/20/2020
D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., is offering a limited time deal on his new ekphrastic book, "The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing." If you order directly from him at the email address below before the end of this month, Robert will pay the $4.49 cost of packaging and posting, meaning you only pay the cover price of the book, $25.00. The book is 184 pages, all ekphrastic, with the full-color art reproduced inside for each piece. This offer is good through the end of this month, and is the only way to get an inscribed, personalized copy. Robert also has copies of his first book, "At the Lake with Heisenberg," and is including that book in the postage paid offer. The cover price for "At the Lake with Heisenberg" is $12.00; Robert will pay packaging and posting ($4.02) if you order from him by the end of August. You can contact Robert at: [email protected].  We want to help you share your writing news!  If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form.
The June issue of MacQueen's Quinterly has three works by Robert L. Dean Jr., D5, one of which earned Clare's "Editor's Choice Award" for this issue.
The ekphrastic poem which got the Editor's Choice Award is talked about in the contents entry titled "Editor's Choice Award." The title is "Hands," is written to a photo taken by an Oklahoma photographer named Gay Pasley. "Hand's" is also mentioned in the "Ekphrastic Works" section, as is Dean's other ekphrastic piece in this issue, "Newsboy." The third poem, "The Bus to Elysium," is listed under Prose Poems. Here's the link to Contents: MacQueen’s Quinterly: Contents: Issue 4 KAC D5 member, April Pameticky, has put together a powerful issue of River City Poetry that assembles Kansas Poets’ responses to the events of June 2020. Members who have poems in this issue include Roy Beckemeyer, Dixie Brown, Arlice W. Davenport, H.B. Berlow, Robert L. Dean Jr., and Gretchen Eick.  D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., has three works in the new issue of MacQueen's Quinterly; one under CNF (creative non fiction); one under Ekphrastic works (an ekphrastic prose poem); one under poems, lineated. Dean is also mentioned in Clare's intro, under Featured artist and Ekphrastic Works. As always, it's a good issue! Below is a link to the table of contents: MacQueen’s Quinterly: Contents: Issue 3 We want to share your writing news!
Ken Hada, the director of the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival (which was cancelled this year, it would have been this last weekend) and professor at East Central University in Ada, OK, does a weekly podcast called "The Sunday Poems," which are archived at his website. His podcast yesterday was about "walking" poems---or poems about walking---and he included the opening poem, "Along This Road," from my Robert Dean's new book, The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing. Dean's poem is the third in Episode 80: Walking Poems.
Congratulations, Robert Dean, District 5 member! And thank you to Ken Hada for a fine collection of podcasts.  D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., will be doing a reading from his new book, The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing (Turning Plow Press, 2020), at The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday, June 19th, 2020, beginning at 7 PM, along with two other fine authors. Dean will be conducting a workshop on Ekphrastic writing the following day, Saturday, June 20th, 2020, from 11-2, also at The Writers Place, titled Finding the Door: writing ekphrastic and how to let yourself into the art. The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing | IndieBound.org  D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., has two pieces in the new issue of MacQueen's Quinterly. You can find them at the link here, one under "Poems, Lineated," the other under "Prose Poems." MacQueen's Quinterly is the successor to KYSO Flash, both published and edited by Clare MacQueen.
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Contents: Issue 2 Robert L. Dean, D5 member, was recently published in the Ekphrastic Review.
His poem, "When Icarus turns ninety" is written to a painting by Stephen Schroeder. It is one of 42 ekphrastic works in Dean's forthcoming book, The Aerialist Will not be Performing: ekphrastic poems and flash fictions to the art of Steven Schroeder, to be published spring 2020. _______________________ Robert L. Dean is the author of At the Lake with Heisenberg (Spartan Press, 2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, Chiron Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Shot Glass, Illya’s Honey, Red River Review, KYSO Flash, River City Poetry, Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance & Solidarity, and the Wichita Broadside Project. He is a multiple Best of the Net nominee and a Pushcart nominee for 2019. He was a quarter-finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. His second book, The Aerialist Will not be Performing, ekphrastic poems and short fictions to the art of Steven Schroeder, will be out in 2020. He is event coordinator for Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music, held annually in Wichita, Kansas. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Augusta, Kansas. Watermark Books & Cafe will host local poets Michael Poage, Diane Wahto, and Matt Cooper for a joint reading and signing of their new books on Sunday, January 5 at 2:00 p.m. Poage and Wahto are D5 members. Roy Beckemeyer, April Pameticky & Robert Dean are doing a joint reading at Watermark Books in Wichita on Sunday, January 12th, starting at 2 PM.   Clare MacQueen, the editor of KYSO Flash, has started a new online mag called MacQueen's Quinterly. D5 member, Robert Dean, is the featured artist, with five works in the first issue, all ekprahstic poems to the art of Steven Schroeder (the other featured artist in the issue).
Roy Beckemeyer, also of D5, has one poem in the issue, indexed under "Poems, lineated." D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr. has three poems in the Winter 2019 issue of Chiron Review. Congratulations, Robert!  Robert L. Dean, Jr. photo by Cole Dean  I-70 Review The new I-70 Review is out! Congratulations to the following Kansas Authors Club members who were published in this issue: Roy Beckemeyer (D5), Robert Dean (D5), Kevin Rabas (D2), Tyler Robert Sheldon (D2), Wyatt Townley (D2).
Order your copy from the I-70 Review website! Have we missed anyone? Please send an email if there are additional members who should be listed here. Congratulations to D5 member, Robert L. Dean, whose ephrastic work "Aftermath" was posted at the Ekphrastic Review, with art by Steven Schroeder. Dean was also notified that Lorette C. Luzajic, editor at the Ekphrastic Review, nominated his piece, "Metal Man," posted on ER earlier this year, and written to a photo of my paternal grandfather in my collection, for the Best of the Net. This was his first such nomination! Clare MacQueen at KYSO Flash also nominated Dean's poem "Windmill," written to a wonderful painting by Steven Schroeder, for Best of the Net.  Lester B. Dean, 1955, Boeing machine shop. Robert L. Dean’s personal collection. Two District 5 members have several of their poems in the new issue of KYSO Flash, Robert Dean and Roy Beckemeyer. Roy, who is a former state President of Kansas Authors Club, is the featured author/photographer. Congratulations, Bob and Roy!
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