03/16/2026
MSUM Tom Sand/Thomas McGrath Visiting Writer Series
Please help us celebrate the 41st year of the Tom Sand/Tom McGrath Visiting Writer Series with special guest poet/author David Mason. Mason will be reading from his latest work, Cold Fire, Red Hen Press, available on March 31st, 2026. This event will be hosted by Minnesota State University Moorhead in the Christianson Alumni Center, Barry Auditorium at 2:00 PM on April 12, 2026, 707 11th Street South, Moorhead, Minnesota.
This event is free and open to the public.
A teacher and editor, David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington. He 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 Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
Source: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/david-mason)
