Career
He has published eight chapbooks and two full-length works of poetry as well as two anthologies. Mason has written about relationships, religion and the Bible, and themes of Midwest and Great Plains life. Mason"s early work gave him a reputation as a humorous poet, but he has written comedy, drama, and tragedy.
Six of Mason"s eight chapbooks have been published through his own small press, Morpo Press.
His second book The Baby That Ate Cincinnati was released in 2013 by the Stephen F. Austin University Press. Mason is a poetry activist in the Omaha area.
He operates the Poetry Menu, a website that lists poetry events in Nebraska. Mason currently serves as Executive Director of Nebraska Writers Collective, festival coordinator for the Louder Than a Bomb: Omaha Youth Poetry Festival, past board president for the Nebraska Center for the Book, and consults for the Nebraska Arts Council for Nebraska’s Poetry Out Loud program (an National Education Association/Poetry Foundation program).
He has served on the board of directors for the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association, the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards, Friends of the Omaha Public Library, and the Medusa Project.
In October, 2015, Mason served as a representative for the United States. State Department in Romania teaching Poetry slam to high schools students in various cities. Mason is married to the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown (Sarah Mason). They have two daughters, Sophia and Lucia.
