On this day in 1965, Benjamin Britten’s choral work ‘Voices for Today’ premiered, commissioned by UN Secretary-General U Thant

Delighted to be in this wonderful issue, with thanks to editor Philip Rowland. This is a genuinely great read to be experienced ‘as a renga-like chain of poems’.

You can access here.

Continuing with a series of poems and lyrics about/related to Nebraska, my birth state, begun in April 2016. My last post on this was in November, 2024.

Matt Mason served as Nebraska State Poet from 2019 – 2024

To watch a video of my reading of these two poems, go here