October 25: Poetry Reading Meg Kearney and Tim Mayo
Date/Time
Date(s) - October 25, 2026
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location
The Toadstool Bookshop
Categories
Poetry reading at Toadstool Books in Keene, NH
Meg will be reading from her latest collection of sonnets Cardiac Thrill and
Tim will be reading from his new collection Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Meg Kearney’s All Morning the Crows, won the 2020 Washington Prize for poetry, and was awarded the Silver Medal by Foreword Review’s Meg is also author of Home By Now, winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award and two crowns of Sonnets: Ice Storm and Cardiac Thrill. A Native New Yorker, she lives in New Hampshire and is founding director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program.


Tim Mayo’s most recent collection of poetry is Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster (Bainbridge Island Press, 2026). His work has received ten Pushcart Prize nominations, and his book Thesaurus of Separation has been a finalist for both the Eric Hoffer Award and the Montaigne Medal. He lives in Brattleboro, VT, where he is a founding member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
