(Wesleyan University Press) and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. His writing has been honored with the Whiffen Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Margaret Sterling Award, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council Poetry Fellowship and the Arizona Commission on the Arts Award of Merit for Poetry. His poem “The Quiet Power” is the official Dedicatory Poem of the Tucson Main Library.

Will is also an accomplished mask maker and storyteller. His Myths & Masks performance and workshop combines his original mask art, mythopoetic storytelling and multicultural world music. Will has provided over 200 workshops, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, full-length

Will Clipman began playing his father's drums and his mother's piano at the age of three. He played his first professional gig at fourteen, and has since mastered a pan-global palette of more than 100 percussion instruments as well as the traditional drum set. Will has been inducted into the Tucson Musicians Museum for his contributions to the musical community in his hometown. In addition to his solo work, Will performs with R. Carlos Nakai and William Eaton, among many other internationally acclaimed artists. Will's solo CD Pathfinder earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album. His Planet of Percussion® performance and workshop provides a hands-on tour of world music rhythm and polyrhythm. A poet since the age of six, Will has published a book of his original poetry entitled Dog Light