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MATT MASON
received his MA in English from the Creative Writing Workshop at
the University of California at Davis in 1994, then returned to Omaha, where
he works to promote public poetry readings and poetry readers through The
Nebraska Poetry Menu, an online listing of poetry events at
http://poetrymenu.com. Mason has six poetry chapbooks available, including
Mistranslating Neruda from New Michigan Press and his latest, When The Bough
Breaks, from Lone Willow Press. Mason enjoys a variety of different venues:
he's read at the Nebraska Book Festival, the Western Literature
Association's annual conference, the Nebraska State Fair and Wayne State
University's Plains Writers Series but also loves poetry slam competitions,
winning several in Nebraska, Iowa, New Mexico and at the Green Mill in
Chicago, where slam began. He runs the monthly poetry slam and open mic at
the Omaha Healing Arts Center (8pm, 2nd Saturday of every month) and was on
the 2002 Des Moines slam team, the 2003 Omaha team (which made it to
semi-finals at the National Poetry Slam) and the 2005 Omaha team. His poems
have been accepted by Logan House Press's The Logan house Anthology of 21st
Century American Poetry and magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Green
Mountains Review, The Laurel Review, Poet Lore, Mid-American Review, Rhino,
Chiron Review; a poem of his was read on Radio Nederlands: Wereldomroep as a
runner-up in their competition on science poetry; and a poem of his was
selected as poem of the week by
MobyLives. Matt has helped with poetry
events for bookstores, high schools, junior highs, colleges, and libraries.
He's one of the editors of the anthology Slamma Lamma Ding Dong: An Anthology
of Nebraska's Slam Poets> (iUniverse, 2006).
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