Poet Jamaal May won the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books for his first book, Hum (2013). He’s published two poetry chapbooks: The God Engine and The Whetting of Teeth. He is founding editor of the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook and Video Series. His poems have been published widely in journals such as The Believer, The New Republic, POETRY, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. Notes The Los Angeles Times: “The melancholic hum of May’s tone lends gravity and heart to this debut collection.... May’s work is skillful and nuanced in its surprising approach to the nature (and nurture) of identity.”
Free and open to the public; no tickets necessary. Book-signing after the reading, along with a public reception. Presented by the Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer Series and the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English.