Jamaal May

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.

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]

• 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