Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper

Tim Mayo holds an ALB, Cum Laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars. Among the many places his poems and reviews have appeared are The American Journal of Poetry, Avatar Review, Barrow Street, Narrative Magazine, Poetry International, Poet Lore, River Styx, Salamander, San Pedro River Review, Tar River Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Web Del Sol Review of Books, and The Writer’s Almanac. His poems have received seven Pushcart Prize nominations and have twice been finalists for the Paumanok Poetry Award. 

His first full length collection, The Kingdom of Possibilities, (Mayapple Press, 2009) was a finalist for the 2009 May Swenson Award. His second volume of poems, Thesaurus of Separation (Phoenicia Publishing 2016) was a finalist for the 2017 Montaigne Medal and a finalist for the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award. He was a founding member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival and is a Substitute Teacher and per diem Mental Health Worker at the Brattleboro Retreat.

Paperback: 52 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (November 29, 2019)

Awards:
Eric Hoffer Award: Honorable Mention in the 2020 Chapbook Category