Dean B.'s profile

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“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 was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature, in The Toronto Star

• Member of Socan
• have performed my songs and poems in Toronto and California
• recipient of 2 unsolicited Ontario Arts Council awards
• originated ‘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.
• 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

You can look me up on Yahoo.com, Yahoo.ca, Google, etc. etc
©Dean J. Baker

Have lived in 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)

I am now residing here: mid-way between Fart Erie, Ridgeway, and Port Colborne.

©Dean J. Baker

Activities

writing, reading, music, country living

Favorite Music

Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, The Beatles

Favorite Books

too many

Favorite Animals

dogs

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