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D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s poem "The Tear" just came out in the new issue of October Hill Magazine. A link to the magazine's issue archives is provided below. The new issue is OHM Winter 2020, Volume 4, Issue 4. You can either 1: click on the image of the issue cover, which will open up the issue, or 2: click on "New! Digital Download," which is a much better way to open the issue; it will not download to your computer but open as a pdf, you have to click on the download icon after the issue opens to download the issue to your computer. Dean's poem "The Tear" is the last item in the issue, on page 164. A beautiful online magazine, and very nice folks. This is Dean's second appearance in October Hill Magazine. Link:


October Hill Magazine Archives

D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s poem "Cloudy with a Chance of Miracles," from Dean's latest book, The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing, was featured Sunday, January 10th, on Ken Hada's podcast "The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada." It is part of Episode #120. This is the Second Sunday in a row Ken has read from Dean's recent book. Ken also reads one of his own poems, "What We Have Lost," and briefly reflects on the events from Wednesday, January 6th. The podcast can be found anywhere podcasts are broadcast, and also at the link to Ken's website here:

Episode 120: Loss & A Chance of Miracles by The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada • A podcast on Anchor

Poetry written by D5 Members, Roy Beckemeyer and Robert L. Dean, Jr., appear in MacQueen's Quinterly, Issue 6, January 2021. Roy has two poems, one of which won the Editor's Choice Award, and Bob has one poem.

Bob's poem "Borderland" is under Ekphrastic Works. To see the image which inspired it, go to the website and click on the title of the photo by Chris Whitney which appears under the poem title.

Roy's two poems,  "Prothalamion" and "The Way Night's Lapidary Light Burnishes Your Skin," are under Poems, Lineated. Roy's latter poem won the Editor's Choice Award for this issue. 

Click below for the MacQueen Quinterly Table of Contents to read the poetry of these two talented D5 poets.

MacQueen's Quinterly Issue 6

This Sunday, January 3rd, 2021, poet and ECU professor Ken Hada will be reading D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s poem "Aftermath," from Dean's latest book, The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing, as part of his Sunday Poems With Ken Hada podcast series. It is episode #119. The podcast can be heard Sunday afternoon on Ken's website or anywhere podcasts are hosted.

Ken has previously featured Wichita poets Roy Beckemeyer, Michael Poage, and Robert L. Dean, Jr., in episode #52. Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s poem "Along This Road" was read in Episode #80.

 Ken presented at a D5 meetings in 2019 from a book he wrote with his brother, The River White.

This link takes you to Ken's podcast.
Sunday Poems With Ken Hada

Check out Ken's quality poem podcasts every Sunday.
Visit his website to learn more about him.

www.kenhada.org

D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., has a new poem, "The Caress," which came out October 15th in the new issue of the online magazine "October Hill Magazine." This is the first time Dean has submitted to this publication; two of the three works submitted were accepted, with one being held back for a future issue. This is a truly gorgeous online magazine, laid out like a print magazine. To access Dean's poem, click on the link below, which is the "Archives" page of the website. Select OHM Fall 2020, Volume 4, Issue 3, labeled "New," and either click on the cover photo, which will open the entire issue in your browser, or click on "download" to download a pdf file of the entire issue. Dean's poem "The Caress" appears on page 164 in the issue, you can scroll down to it. October Hill Magazine also publishes a lot of fiction and some book reviews. Read the "Welcome" pages at the front of the issue for more info about this publication.  The online pdf is free to download. Both poets and fiction writers should seriously consider this fine publication! You can find more info about October Hill from the menu at the top of the "Archives" page. They plan to start a print version at some point. The link:

October Hill Magazine Archives

The new issue of I-70 Review (issue date September 28, 2020) has pieces by several Kansas Authors Club members.

Congratulations to:
Boyd Bauman (D2)
Robert L. Dean, Jr. (D5)
Kelly Johnston (D5)
Denise Low (D2)
Kevin Rabas (D2)

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D5 member Robert L. Dean, Jr., has two poems and a CNF piece in the new issue of MacQueen's Quinterly. Two of the works are ekphrastic, and in her intro Clare MacQueen refers to Dean as one of "my favorite masters of ekphrasis." Links:

MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Robert L. Dean, Jr.: Eyes on You

MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Robert L. Dean, Jr.: Impresssion

MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Robert L. Dean, Jr.: Doppelgänger

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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
eickgc@gmail.com

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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: bobdean@swbell.net.

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:

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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

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., 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
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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. 
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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."