Jamaal May
{{short description|American poet from Detroit (born 1982)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1982}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan
| occupation = Poet, Professor
| nationality = American
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Jamaal May is an American poet from Detroit.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jamaal-may|title=Jamaal May|last=Poetry Foundation|publisher=The Poetry Foundation|accessdate=5 August 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brooke-williams/jamaal-maydetroit-humming_b_4725115.html|title=Jamaal May -- Detroit Humming Inside Him|last=Williams|first=Brooke|date=4 February 2014|publisher=The Huffington Post|accessdate=5 August 2015}}
Life and career
May lived in Detroit, where he taught poetry in public schools as a Writer-in-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts. He received an MFA from Warren Wilson College.{{cite web|url=http://www.kenyonreview.org/conversation/jamaal-may/|title=Jamaal May|last=The Kenyon Review|publisher=The Kenyon Review|accessdate=5 August 2015}} May has taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was a fellow at the Kenyon Review between 2014 and 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/fellowship/history/|title=The Kenyon Review Fellowships: History|publisher=The Kenyon Review|accessdate=17 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://southeastreview.org/interview-jamaal-may/|title=Interview: Jamaal May|last=Hodge|first=Anna Claire|publisher=The Southeast Review|accessdate=5 August 2015}} May cites Vievee Francis, another poet from Detroit, as an influence and mentor.
His work has appeared in the Best American Poetry 2014,The Believer, Poetry, and Ploughshares .{{cite web|url=http://www.believermag.com/contributors/?read=may,+jamaal|title=Contributors: Jamaal May|last=The Believer|date=1 September 2013|publisher=The Believer|accessdate=5 August 2015}} His first book, Hum, received generally favorable reviews.{{cite web|url=http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/hum-by-jamaal-may/|title=Hum by Jamaal May|last=Cain|first=Martin|work=HTMLGiant|accessdate=5 August 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://thejournalmag.org/archives/9160|title=Review of Hum by Jamaal May|last=Winter|first=David|date=5 September 2014|publisher=The Journal|accessdate=5 August 2015}}
Bibliography
- The God engine: poems, Columbus, Ohio: Pudding House Publications, 2009. {{OCLC|752432089}}
- The whetting of teeth: and other poems, Detroit, Mich.: Organic Weapon Arts, 2012. {{ISBN|9780982710623}}, {{OCLC|823602995}}
- Hum, Alice James Books, 2013
- The Big Book of Exit Strategies Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 2016. {{ISBN|9781938584244}}, {{OCLC|920019109}}
In Anthology
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018. {{OCLC|1004957170}}
References
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Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American male writers
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