David Mason was Poet Laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014. His books include Ludlow: A Verse Novel, The Country I Remember, Arrivals, News from the Village, The Scarlet Libretto, Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014, and Davey McGravy: Tales to be Read Aloud to Children and Adult Children. In 2018 he will publish a new collection of essays, Voices, Places, and The Sound: New and Selected Poems. Mason divides his time between Colorado, Oregon and Australia.

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