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.

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