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Tim Mayo

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Tim Mayo

Author's Bio

Tim Mayo has worked as a house painter, real estate developer & consultant, theatrical producer and a creative writing teacher. He holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA in Writing & Literature from Bennington College. For the last few years he has been studying flying trapeze. Currently he works as a substitute teacher in the WSESU and at the Brattleboro Retreat’s Meadows School. He is also on the Author Selection and Guiding Committee of The Brattleboro Literary Festival.

Publications and Prizes

Books:
The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009)
Chapbooks:
The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications, 2008)
Journals:
5 A.M., Arbutus, Atlanta Review, Avatar Review, Babel Fruit Online, Big Toe Review, Blue Lake Review, Chrysalis, Four Corners, Inertia, MannequinEnvy, OVS Magazine, Paris/Atlantic, Poet Lore, Redheaded Stepchild, River Styx, Rose and Thorn, The Del Sol Review, The Writer's Almanac, Verse Daily
Prizes:
1999 International Merit Award (Atlanta Review); 2000 Semi-finalist, "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest; 2000 International Merit Award (Atlanta Review); 2006 & 08 Vermont Writer's & Artists Grant (Vermont Studio Center); 2008 nominated for two Best of the Net Awards by The Rose & Thorn Literary E-zine and by Babel Fruit; 2009 Finalist, Paumanok Award; 2010 nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:
Then, Something by Patricia Fargnoli, More: Poems by Barbara Crooker, Red Rooms & Others by Carol Levin, Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems by Wesley McNair, Pierce the Skin by Henri Cole
Favorite Authors:
Eliot, Auden, Hart Crane, Ginsberg, Keats,Shelly, Coleridge, Marvel, Yeats, Dunn, Dylan Thomas, Donne, Heaney, E. Bishop, Lowell, W.C. Williams, Strand, Ashbery, Simic, Emily Dickinson, Jori Graham, Stanley Kunitz, Galway Kinnell, Robert Frost, Robert Hayden, Wordsworth, Plath, Sexton, Oliver, Ruth Stone, Symborska, Neruda, Lorca,Robert Penn Warren, Derek Walcott, Whitman, Richard Wilbur, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Philip Levine, Larry Levis. Billy Collins, Tony Hoagland, Henri Cole.

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it.
Listing last updated: January 31, 2012

More Information

Listed as:
Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Prefers to work with:
Adults
Fluent in:
French

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