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It's Time for the Lightning Round! with Matt Mason

Sat, Jul 20

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Let's see what we can do with shorter poems, fitting ideas into smaller spaces like snapshots or meditations.

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It's Time for the Lightning Round! with Matt Mason
It's Time for the Lightning Round! with Matt Mason

Time & Location

Jul 20, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT

Zoom

About the Event

Poetry is always about concision, about writing something small and quick with no excess of words or lines or ideas or lines like this way-too-long sentence. Let's see what we can do with shorter poems, fitting ideas into a smaller spaces like snapshots or meditations.

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MATT MASON is the Nebraska State Poet and was Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective from 2009-2022. Through the US State Department, he has run workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus.

Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council.

His work can be found in The New York Times, on NPR’s Morning Edition, in American Life in Poetry, and more. Mason's 4th book, At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife and Churros, was released by The Old Mill Press in 2022.

Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and daughters Sophia and Lucia. Find more on his website.

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  • Time for the Lightning Round

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