Tim Earley
Tim Earley is an American poet. He is the author of four collections of poems, Boondoggle, The Spooking of Mavens, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, and Linthead Stomp.
Early life
Timothy Darren Earley was born and raised in Western North Carolina.Education
He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama.Career
His work has appeared in the Chicago Review, jubilat, the Southern Humanities Review, and the Green Mountains Review. His work has been featured in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains, The Ecopoetry Anthology, edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street, and Hick Poetics, edited by Abraham Smith and Shelly Taylor. The collection Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery was published by Horseless Press in early 2014; Seth Abramson, in a review in The Huffington Post, referred to Earley as a "Southern Seer" and said he "is a master of anaphora, Biblical rhythms, revelatory testimony, tell-it-slant aggression, and juxtapositive imagery that borrows heavily from the Southern lexicon", his poetry "not merely urgent but dam-broken".Personal life
Earley moved to Denver, CO in 2015. Previously, he lived in Oxford, Mississippi.Awards
- AWP Intro/Journals Award
- 1998-1999 Writing Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
- 2002-2003 Writing Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
- 2015 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award Winner
Selected bibliography
Collections
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- Earley, Tim. Linthead Stomp. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Horse Less Press.
Work available online
Boondoggle- ''What's Happening''