Tim Mayo
Brattleboro, VT
Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars. His poems and reviews have appeared in Atlanta Review, Arbutus, Avatar Review, Babel Fruit, Big Toe Review, The Chrysalis Reader, Del Sol Review, 5 AM, Inertia Magazine, Mannequin Envy, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. Among the awards his poetry has garnered are two International Merit Awards from Atlanta Review; he has been a finalist in the Winning-Writers.com War Poetry Contest, twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and lastly for a Pushcart Prize. In 2000 he was a semi-finalist in the “Discovery/The Nation Poetry Contest and has been the recipient of two fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center. His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications 2008) was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, and his most recent publication The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards, a finalist for the 2007 Main Street Rag Award and lastly, a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. Also in 2009 he was a top finalist for the Paumanok Award. He is a member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival Author Committee and lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:50PM
Reading in Brattleboro, Vermont
On this June 18, I will be reading at the Brooks Memorial Library. The reading begins at 7 pm will be with two poets whom I admire, Barbara Benoit and Jacqueline Gens. Jacquelin has published a lovely and deep chapbook entitled Primo Pensiero or First Thought in English. Although with an Italian title one would immediately think Dante, the ititle in fact refers to the notion of "first thought, best thought" meaning to trust one's pre-conscious first perceptio before it has been co-opted by ego's manipulation. It is a notion Jacqueline learned through her work with Chogyam Trungpa Rinposhe and Allen Ginsberg. Jacqueline is a practicing Buddhist and her work is very uch centered on her beliefs. Barbara Benoit's poems although equally spiritual are, if I amy say, more centered in a conventionally western belief system. I am the Athelist anchor too this trio, though I do not consider myself nor my poems to be in any way antagonistic or at odds with either of these two. I hope to add a different shade of coloring––and not unspiritual by any means––to their outlook on the world.
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