Author: Tim Mayo
Mayapple Book: The Kingdom of Possibilities
Event Name: Readings in the Gallery 2014
Where: 1171 Main Street, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
When: Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 PM
www.stjathenaeum.org
Phone: 748-8291

This program is sponsored by the Fund for Poetry
This event is free, open to the public and handicapped accessible.
A book signing and reception will follow.

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 Narrative Magazine, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Tar River, Poetry,Verse Daily, Web Del Sol Review of Books, and The Writer’s Almanac, as well as others. His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House, 2008) was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, and his first full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009) was a semifinalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. He has been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, four times for a Pushcart Prize and was chosen as a top finalist for the Paumanok Award. He is a former member of The Brattleboro Literary Festival Author Selection Committee and currently lives in Brattleboro, Vermont. Tim will be reading a selection of poems from his book The Kingdom of Possibilities and from his new yet to be published manuscript Trapezing in God’s Country.

Lynn Martin’s poetry has appeared in Calliope, River City Review, South Florida Review, The Garden State, Green Mountains Review, Sinister Wisdom, Connecticut Review, Earth’s Daughters, Sweet Annie Press, The Centennial Review, and Friends Journal. She also has work in the anthologies, Heartbeat of New England, My Lover Is A Woman, Tail Feathers, and Connections: New York City Bridges in Poetry. Her non-fiction has been published in the Mystery Review, Out in the Mountains, Foster Families and the Southeastern Audubon Society newsletter. She is the author of Visible Signs of Defiance and Talking to the Day. Meg Mott, writer and Professor at Marlboro College, describes Martin this way, “Lynn comes to poetry from a working class background. Her verse contains a raw truthfulness uncontaminated by privilege. Lynn’s style compliments that of the state of Vermont: sharp lines, a tough backbone, and an aesthetic the quality of moss.” Lynn reads her poetry as a reflection of her life seen in one day: dawn, morning, day and evening. She will be reading from a collection of her work.