The Glasrud Lecture and Reading
Featuring
David Mason
Thursday, March 24, 2011
4 p.m. Lecture • CMU 101
“Poetry and the Public”
8 p.m. Reading • CMU 101
David Mason, who taught at MSUM for nine years, has published three books of poems: The Buried Houses (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), The Country I Remember (winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award), and Arrivals. His verse novel, Ludlow, was named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. It was also featured on the PBS News Hour. His poetry, prose and translations have appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, and The Hudson Review. He has also written the libretti for composer Lori Laitman’s opera of The Scarlet Letter and her oratorio, Vedem, and recently won the Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize for the development of a new libretto based upon Ludlow. He has also published a literary memoir, News from the Village, and two book of essays, most recently Two Minds of a Western Poet. In 2010 he was appointed Colorado Poet Laureate.