we all came home and locked the door, ready, we felt, to wait out this threat that swept country to country to state to state, and we had toilet paper, coffee, and pasta, enough dish soap, enough sugar, and we looked at one another, then went to different rooms to wait. And we had Disney+ […]
Matt Mason
Matt Mason served as the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024 and has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department. His poetry has appeared in The New York Times, and Matt has received a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and in hundreds of other publications. Mason’s 5th book, Rock Stars, was published by Button Poetry in 2023. Find more at: https://matt.midverse.com/
One of the First Places
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 […]