Letter from Poetry Magazine
Letter to the Editor
BY David Mason
Dear Editor,
Your humor issue is just the kick in the pants the American poetry scene needed. Thank you for doing it. And I also should thank you for identifying the Poems and the Commentary as such. One can never be too careful.
A teacher and editor, David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington. He earned a BA from Colorado College and an MA and PhD from the University of Rochester in New York. Mason’s collections of poetry include The Buried Houses (1991), winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize; The Country I Remember (1996), winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; Arrivals (2004); and the verse novel…