"Whether turning his attention to kiwifruit, "Wild Kingdom's" Marlin Perkins, the Strategic Air Command Museum, or lovers who with luck may come to resemble a no-expiration-date snack cake, Mason sheds some of his Nebraskan light on our universally human proceedings." --David Clewell, author of "Now We're Getting Somewhere."

"Rebel With a Cause — Matt Mason is a revolutionary. And not just when he's writing about vigorous political outrage (the title of his new collection is from a Donald Rumsfeld quote). Even Mason's poems filled with gentle insight, kindness, humor and grace are small, feisty acts of rebellion — crystallizing a new way of thinking, feeling, behaving." Michael Burke

"The only thing better than reading these poems is to hear Matt Mason himself read them." Marjorie Saiser, author of Bones of a Very Fine Hand

"Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland." Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of So Often The Pitcher Goes to Water Before It Breaks

Things We Don't Know We Don't Know debuted at #12 on the Poetry Foundation best seller list for contemporary poetry books (May 28th, 2006). Why? Because it's a great read: more entertaining than you'd think a book of poetry should be and more poetic than you'd think an entertaining book can be.

Original poetry by the Omaha Nebraska Master of Slam.

After earning his MA in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis, Matt Mason, of course, moved to Omaha where Mason lives with his wonderful wife Sarah and baby daughter Sophia. Over 100 magazines and anthologies have published his poems, including Laurel Review, Prairie Schooner, The Morpo Review, and the online edition of Mississippi Review. New Michigan Press released his chapbook Mistranslating Neruda in 2003; not to be outdone, Lone Willow Press put out When The Bough Breaks in 2005.

Mason has read poetry everywhere from behind the podiums of the Nebraska Book Festival to the stages of the National Poetry Slam as well as at universities, high schools, libraries, book stores, radio shows, state fairs, art museums, bars, ice cream parlors, and coffee shops across the country, even appearing as the stand-in for Poet Laureate Ted Kooser and Oscar winning director Alexander Payne at rehearsals for the opening of a performing arts center. He was appointed an Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska by Governor Mike Johanns in 2004, enjoy donuts, and sometimes do write about cows.