Who is Dean J. Baker?

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Dean J. Baker is an intuitive and sensual poet with an uncanny ability to reach his readers at an intimate and in depth level. His wide variety of poetry is both passionate and deeply personal and his artistry and understanding of language is truly a gift. You can access Dean's writing with a plethora of links by simply googling his name. Or find him in the MySpace poetry blogs, BlogSpot, Technorati or Wordpress. DEAN J. BAKER was born in Toronto, mother Jean and father Joseph, brother Terry, divides his time between Toronto, countryside Ontario towns in that area of land affectionately known as 'Cowshit Valley', and a small coastal city in California. Member of Socan, has performed his songs and poems in Toronto and California; edited a book for Joe Rosenblatt; recipient of 2 unsolicited Ontario Arts Council awards; originated 'Poet's Corner' on Q107FM where he did live readings of his poems and prose poems; letters between himself and Irving Layton, who taught Leonard Cohen,and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for literature, on file at Concordia University; has over 400 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 have been published in newspapers, magazines, online and in anthologies. Lived in England, Ireland, Italy, Greece, NY City, California...