Author David Mason to read at Minnesota State Moorhead April 12

Author David Mason to read at Minnesota State Moorhead April 12

Sunday, April 12 | 2 p.m. | Christianson Alumni Center, Barry Auditorium

Author David Mason, a former Minnesota State Moorhead professor and a Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado College, will read selected poems from his recent book "Cold Fire," Red Hen Press, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 12 at the Christianson Alumni Center, Barry Auditorium, 707 11th Street South, Moorhead.

A question-and-answer session will follow the free and open-to-the-public reading, which is part of the Sand/McGrath Visiting Writers Series. Books will be available for purchase.

David Mason's poetry circles the globe. The urgent and beautiful poems of his new book, "Cold Fire," are set in Australia, India, Greece, Turkey and the American West. A title sequence takes up the Aboriginal practice of cool burning for fire mitigation, and moves to the Ring of Fire, the volcanoes of Mason's childhood home in the Pacific Northwest - fires of creation and destruction.

Mason earned a BA from Colorado College and an MA and PhD from the University of Rochester in New York. Mason's collections of poetry include "The Buried Houses" (1991), winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize; "The Country I Remember" (1996), winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; "Arrivals" (2004); and the verse novel "Ludlow" (2007), awarded the Colorado Book Award for Poetry and named best book of poetry in 2007 by the Contemporary Poetry Reviewand the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

A former Fulbright Fellow to Greece, Mason served as Poet Laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014. He lives in Tasmania, the island state of Australia.

MSUM is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible event. If you need a reasonable accommodation to attend this event, please contact Chuck Eade at [email protected]. You will be contacted individually to discuss your request.

About the Sand/McGrath Visiting Writers Series

The Sand/McGrath Visiting Writers Series brings to campus some of the finest contemporary writers to read and share their work with students, faculty, and the community. The series has featured more than 150 writers and sponsored or supported over 50 other writers and events since its inaugural season. The series is named in honor of the late Thomas R. Sand and the late Thomas McGrath. For more than four decades, Tom Sand was a political strategist, researcher, and writer who helped shape Minnesota and federal agricultural and social policies. Thomas McGrath was an internationally recognized and award-winning author who taught at Moorhead State University from 1969-1983. The Sand/McGrath Visiting Writers Series is supported by a gift from the late Tom Sand and a grant from the Solomon Comstock Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation.