Matt Mason

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Matt Mason has a Pushcart Prize and two Nebraska Book Awards; was a finalist for the position of Nebraska State Poet; and organizes poetry programming for the State Department. His most recent book, The Baby That Ate Cincinnati, was released by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2013.

  • The cover to Tracy K. Smith's Wade in the Water juxtaposed against a photo of its author

    Tracy K. Smith’s Poetry and the Erasures of American History

    July 9, 2018 Matt Mason
    Photo of Tracy K. Smith by Rachel Eliza GriffithsReading Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018), US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s fourth book, is an experience unlike any I’ve had bef…
  • Rich, “On a Saturday Afternoon” (on the road from Royal, Nebraska, to the Ashfall Fossil Beds), May 25, 2013

    Two Poems

    June 14, 2017 Matt Mason
    Rich, “On a Saturday Afternoon” (on the road from Royal, Nebraska, to the Ashfall Fossil Beds), May 25, 2013Creation StoriesMy favorite creation story right nowis the Babylonian one,where…