Jamaal May

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Jamaal May
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May at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University
Born1982 (age 4142)
Detroit, Michigan
OccupationPoet, Professor
NationalityAmerican

Jamaal May is an American poet from Detroit. [1] [2]

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. [3] May has taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was a fellow at the Kenyon Review between 2014 and 2016. [4] [5] May cites Vievee Francis, another poet from Detroit, as an influence and mentor.

Contents

His work has appeared in the Best American Poetry 2014, The Believer , Poetry , and Ploughshares . [1] [6] His first book, Hum, received generally favorable reviews. [7] [8]

Bibliography

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References

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