Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Robert L. Dean, Jr. is the author of Pulp (Finishing Line Press, 2022), The Aerialist Will not be Performing: Ekphrastic Poems and Short Fictions to the Art of Steven Schroeder (Turning Plow Press, 2020), and At the Lake with Heisenberg (Spartan Press, 2018). A multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, his work has appeared in many journals and reviews. A native Kansan, Dean has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Augusta, Kansas, along with a universe of books, CDs, LPs, and a couple dozen hats. He enjoys chess and backgammon, when he can find someone willing to play.
By Jason Baldinger , Robert L. Dean
Published: 2025
Poems by Robert L. Dean, Photography by Jason Baldinger
Baldinger has an eye for the arcane, the iconic ordinariness of the battered soul of America’s Rust Belt remnants. Dean traces these intricate tapestries, polishes the sheen of faded dreams, the lives and loves of those who once dwelled in these places. Like facing mirrors, an infinity of reflections cascade as far as we can see. Ekphrasis…
—Roy Beckemeyer
The Night Window brings two artists together in a powerful, uncompromising collection of poetry and photography. All is laid bare, yet there is still room for hope. A powerful and necessary document.
—James Benger