RECOGNITION

The old volcanic mountains 
That slope up from the sea — 
They dream and dream a thousand years 
And watch what-is-to-be. 

What gladness shines upon them 
When, white as white sea-foam, 
To the old, old ports of Beauty 
A new sail comes home!

MATT MASON BIOGRAPHY

Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective. He has run poetry programs for the State Department in Nepal, Romania, Botswana and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and his work can be found in magazines and anthologies including Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. The author of Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (The Backwaters Press, 2006) and The Baby That Ate Cincinnati (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2013), Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and daughters Sophia and Lucia. 

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