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Dave Mason

David Mason

Bio

Academic Background:
B. A. The Colorado College 1978
M. A. University of Rochester, 1986
Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1989
Colorado College faculty since 1998

Courses Taught:
Creative Writing (all levels)
Modern British Literature
Irish Writers After Yeats and Joyce
Postcolonial Literature
Poetics
The Reinvention of the Greeks
Drama Away (in Turkey and Greece)

Contact Information:
David Mason
Associate Professor
Armstrong 237
English Department
Colorado College
14 E. Cache la Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903-3298
(719) 389-6502
dmason@coloradocollege.edu

David Mason’s books of poems include The Buried Houses (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), The Country I Remember (winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award), Arrivals, and, most recently, Ludlow, a verse novel.  Author of a collection of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, Mason has also co-edited several textbooks and anthologies, including Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, Twentieth Century American Poetry, and Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. His poetry, prose and translations have appeared in such periodicals as Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, Agenda, Modern Poetry in Translation, The New Criterion, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, The Irish Times, and The Southern Review. A former Fulbright Fellow to Greece, he lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs with his wife, Anne Lennox.




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