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Matt has led writing and performing workshops, presentations for board meetings and Arts administrators as well as teacher in-services about teaching poetry to students. He’s taught workshops for grades K-College through senior centers in the U.S., Belarus, Nepal, Botswana, and Romania.

Workshops include but aren’t limited to:

• Write Star Wars/Disney/pop culture poems.
• “That Team Building Session Was Poetry!”: aimed at a staff training and retreat session to bring a team together by writing and sharing together.
• Ode writing workshop celebrating the small things we love.
• Rock Stars: write about the music that formed you.
• Storytelling through Poetry.
• Flexible poetry writing workshop: put together to suit an organization or experiences.
• Storytelling Through Poetry: Poetry gets a bad rap sometimes, but all it is is a way to tell a story. That’s how it started thousands of years ago and how I love approaching it today. In this workshop, we’ll tell stories using poetry techniques; and this is aimed at writers who may not think of themselves as poets but I guarantee you you’ll surprise yourself the way we do this.

Talks include:

• Poetry and Matt Mason: Experience poetry in a program adjusted for audience ages and needs. Matt reads his work, talks about poetry and answers questions about poetry and his time as Nebraska State Poet.
• Poetry Matters: What went wrong with poetry to make us often discount it for much of the last 100 years and why we all should love it.
• What is a Poetry Slam? Poetry slam is a form of poetry competition which is helping revitalize poetry around the world. Matt ran a poetry slam for 12 years, competed on 5 teams at the National Poetry Slam, ran a youth festival and has run poetry slams for the US State Department in other countries.
• Flexible talk on an aspect of poetry you’d like me to discuss.