Readings in the Night Owl Cafe

From Jeff Friedman, English: Poets Tim Mayo and Carey Salerno will read from their work in the Night Owl Cafe on Thursday, April 16, at 4 p.m.

Among the awards Tim Mayo’s poetry has garnered are two International Merit Awards from Atlanta Review, finalist in the 2007 _WinningWriters.com _War Poetry contest, and two nominations to the 2008 Best of the Net Anthology (one from Babel Fruit and the other from The Rose and Thorn Literary E-zine). In 2000 he was a semi-finalist in the Discovery/The Nation poetry contest and has been awarded two fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center’s annual Vermont Artist’s Week. His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ontario, Canada, and his new collection, The Kingdom of Possibilities, will be published this spring. He lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Carey Salerno is the acting director of Alice James Books. Her first book, Shelter, won the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award and was published in January 2009. She has an M.F.A. from New England College and lives with her husband and dog in Farmington, Maine.