Biography
“Dean is a combination of thought and torment that has made him write more than a baker’s dozen of fine poems.. he might produce a collection that could astound us all.” – Irving Layton, who taught Leonard Cohen and to whom Leonard dedicated his latest book, and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature, in The Toronto Star
* author of The Herald, and Baker’s Bad Boys, published by Mad Poet Press
* Member of Socan – Society of Authors, Composers, Publishers, where I have over 100 songs registered
* very unofficially helped Irving Layton teach his Honors’ Creative Writing class at York University
* Member of The League of Canadian Poets
* have performed my songs and poems in Toronto and California
* recipient of 2 unsolicited Ontario Arts Council awards
* helped originate ‘Poet’s Corner’ on Q107FM where I did live readings of my poems and prose poems
* done many live readings and performances of my songs, poems, and prose poems
* Over 500 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.
* edited a book for Governor General’s Award winning poet Joe Rosenblatt
* More works have been published in newspapers, magazines, online and in anthologies, recorded and paper
* letters between myself and Irving Layton on file at Concordia University for study by Honors’ Graduate students
* Irving Layton, nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, provided the blurb for one of my books
* forthcoming books include: more of Baker’s Bad Boys, new poems and prose poems, Fat Albert’s Outpatient Folk Clinic, and tales of ordinary heroics in Cousin Harold[satire]
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Have been to Canada (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, etc., etc.), England, Ireland, Greece (Athens, Corfu), Italy (Rome, Brindisi, Florence), Germany, USA (New York City-Chicago-Miami-Atlanta-Alabama…Georgia, Florida, California, etc)
Available for readings. Contact: dean@deanjbaker.com
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