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 Trapeze and other circus arts.

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, Big Toe Review, Chrysalis, Four Corners, Inertia, MannequinEnvy, Paris/Atlantic, Poet Lore, Rose and Thorn, 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;

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Duties of The Spirit by Patricia Fargnoli, Night Mowing by Chard deNiord, Black Thread by Jeff Friedman, Ballistics by Billy Collins, FIre to Fire by Mark Doty

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.

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Listing last updated: July 31, 2009

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

French

March 4, 2010
Hygienic Art Gallery (Reading)
New London, CT
March 17, 2010
Gibson's Bookstore (Reading)
Concord, NH

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews