By City of Alliance
Alliance – In celebration of National Poetry month, the Alliance Public Library will host “Visit with Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason”, a Humanities Nebraska presentation for all ages on Monday, April 25th at 6:30 pm in the Community Room. This presentation is made possible by Humanities Nebraska, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the Alliance Public Library Foundation as part of the HN Speakers Bureau.
Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective. Through the US State Department, he has run workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and his work can be found in The New York Times, on NPR’s Morning Edition, and in American Life in Poetry. Mason's 3rd book, I Have a Poem the Size of the Moon, was released by Stephen F. Austin University Press in 2020. Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and daughters Sophia and Lucia.
For more information, contact Cynthia Horn, Children’s and Youth Services Librarian at (308) 762-1387