10th Annual Poet-in-Residence Announced

Award winning poet David Mason will be our poet-in-residence the week of March 15, 2010. He will give a free public reading at 7:30 PM on Thursday, March 18 in the Mary Johnson Music Center.

Mason's books of poems include The Buried Houses, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, The Country I Remember, which received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, and Arrivals. His verse novel, Ludlow, was published in 2007, and named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Mason has also co-edited several textbooks and anthologies, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism and Twentieth Century American Poetry among others.