In Colorado, In Oregon, upon each beloved fork, a birthday is celebrated. I miss each and every one of my friends. I believe in getting something for nothing. Push the chair, and what I can tell you with almost complete certainty is that the chair won't mind. And beyond hope, I expect it is like this
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Appointed Poet Laureate of the State of Colorado on July 1, 2010, David Mason teaches in the English Department at Colorado College. He has published several books of poetry, a novel in verse, and a collection of essays. He has also co-edited a number of textbooks and anthologies.
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| Reading Series | Colorado State University English Department | Colorado |
| Writing Program | Colorado State University | Colorado |
| Writing Program | Naropa University, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics | Colorado |
| Writing Program | University of Colorado | Colorado |
| Writing Program | University of Denver | Colorado |
| Conference | The Greyrock Institute: Reading and Writing the Rockies | Colorado |
| Small Press | Conundrum Press | Colorado |
| Literary Magazine | War, Literature & the Arts | Colorado |
| Literary Magazine | The Colorado Review | Colorado |
| Literary Magazine | Copper Nickel | Colorado |
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Written in Platte Cañon, Colorado
Spirit that form'd this scene, These tumbled rock-piles grim and red, These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks, These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness, These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own, I know thee, savage
