At the Lake with Heisenberg

Robert L. Dean Jr.s work has appeared in Flint Hills Review I-70 Review The Ekphrastic Review Illyas Honey Red River Review River City Poetry Heartland! Poetry of Love Resistance & Solidarity and the Wichita Broadside Project. He read at the 13th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in April 2018 at East Central University in Ada Oklahoma and the Chikaskia Literary Festival 2018 at Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa campus. His haibun placed first at Poetry Rendezvous 2017. He was a finalist in the 2014 Dallas Poets Community chapbook contest and a quarter- finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry contest. He is event coordinator for Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music held annually in Wichita Kansas. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He is a member of the Kansas Authors Club and lives in a one-hundred-year-old stone building in Augusta Kansas along with a universe of several hundred books CDs LPs two electric basses and a couple dozen hats.