When both your parents were dead, you took your wife and daughters to Disneyland. Because it made sense. There’s a family trip when you were four that you remember— not so well with your head, it’s one of the things inside you, old sparks still warm in your wires. You don’t pretend to know what […]
Matt Mason
Matt Mason is the Nebraska state poet and executive director of the Nebraska Writers Collective. He runs poetry programming for the US State Department, working in Nepal, Romania, Botswana, and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for his poem “Notes For My Daughter Against Chasing Storms,” and his work can be found in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. The author of Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (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.