FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Sep 19, 2007

Renowned Poet to Give Reading Sept. 25

KEUKA PARK, N.Y.—Keuka College’s fall 2007 Spotlight Series kicks off with a reading from poet David Mason, Tuesday Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Gannett Room, Lightner Library.

The reading is free and open to the public.

Mason has published three full-length books of poems, and a number of chapbooks and limited editions. He is co-editor of four major anthologies and the author of essays, reviews, translations, stories and memoirs.

An advisory editor at the Hudson Review, the Sewanee Review and Divide, Mason’s work can be found in The Nation, TLS, The Hudson Review, Poetry, The American Scholar and many other national and international periodicals. His poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, and he has been interviewed for other NPR programs. He is the co-director of the creative writing program at Colorado College.   

Born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, Mason’s work “has been almost obsessively concerned with movement deracination and identity.

“My third collection of poems, Arrivals (2004), contained work set in such diverse locales as India, New Zealand, Greece, Ireland, Scotland, and various parts of the United States, especially my native Pacific Northwest and ancestral Colorado,” said Mason. “However, the attempt was to avoid anything remotely resembling mere ‘travel poetry’ or ‘postcard poetry.’ I wanted to evoke a sense of being and place that would hopefully be just as vivid and precise if I had set every poem in the same back yard.”

Mason’s verse novel, Ludlow (2007), is based on a real-life event that took place in Colorado in 1914 in which 18 men, women and children were killed by the National Guard in the Ludlow coal fields. 

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