LARRY O. DEAN

In addition to poetry, Larry O. Dean is a singer and songwriter, working both solo as well as with several pop bands. He has released numerous critically-acclaimed CD’s, including Sir Slob (2001), Fables in Slang (2001) with Post Office, and Gentrification is Theft (2002) with The Me Decade; he hosts a monthly songwriter showcase, Folk You!, now in its fifth year.

His chapbooks includeRate of Exchange & Other Poems (1988); Barking Up the Wrong Tree (1989); QWERTYUIOP (1989); Eyes, Ears, Nose & Throat (1990); Workers' Comp. (1995); Identity Theft for Dummies (2003); and I Am Spam (2004), a series of poems "inspired" by spam email. Selected magazine publications include The Berkeley Poetry Review, Gryphon, Passages North, Third Lung Review, The Altered Mind, Lilliput Review, Amaranth Review, Kumquat Meringue, California Quarterly, The Monona Review, Whoreson Dog, Pacific Coast Journal, Tomorrow, and Poetry His work has also been widely anthologized.

Larry was a 2004 recipient of the Hands on Stanzas Gwendolyn Brooks Award, presented by the Poetry Center of Chicago.