Prairie Art Brothers and the Kearney Public Library present an evening of live poetry reading with Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason as part of the “How the Light Gets In” poetry month celebration.

Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and was Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective from 2009-2022. Through the US State Department, he has run workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in “The New York Times,” on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” in “American Life in Poetry,” and more. Mason’s 4th book, “At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife and Churros,” was released by The Old Mill Press in 2022. Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife, the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and daughters Sophia and Lucia.