Jamaal May is a poet and editor from Detroit, Michigan where he has taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His first full-length collection, Hum (Alice James Books, 2013), received the Beatrice Hawley Award and an NAACP Image Award nomination. Other honors include the 2013 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and a 2011-2013 Stadler Fellowship. Jamaal’s poems appear in such publications as New Republic, the Believer, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry.
Poetry
Summer 2013
The Sky, Now Black with Birds
Riot helmets outnumbered the protesters who, after Troy Davis was executed, stuck around to throw useless punches into the courthouse grass, while a woman near the forest of batons lay […]
Poetry
Summer 2013
The Hum of Zug Island
In Windsor they blame it on machines across the Detroit River. Residents can't ignore the low frequency hum taking the shape of a sea serpent on oscilloscopes. Beyond gray snow, […]
Jamaal May
Jamaal May is a poet from Detroit, MI where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 […]