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{{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]].<ref name=poetry>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jamaal-may|title=Jamaal May|last=Poetry Foundation|publisher=The Poetry Foundation|accessdate=5 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 

==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]].<ref name=KReview>{{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}}</ref> May has taught at the [[Vermont College of Fine Arts]], and was a fellow at the ''[[Kenyon Review]]'' between 2014 and 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/fellowship/history/|title=The Kenyon Review Fellowships: History|publisher=The Kenyon Review|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> May cites Vievee Francis, another poet from Detroit, as an influence and mentor.

His work has appeared in the [[The Best American Poetry|Best American Poetry 2014]],''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]'', ''[[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry]]'', and ''[[Ploughshares]]'' .<ref name=poetry/><ref>{{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}}</ref> His first book, ''Hum'', received generally favorable reviews.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==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]]
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