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Visiting Writers Series: Jamaal May

Photo of Poet Jamaal May
Fri, January 16, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Barnes & Noble, 1598 N. High St.

Jamaal May is a poet, editor, and educator from Detroit, where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. He is the author of Hum (2013), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and two poetry chapbooks (The God Engine and The Whetting of Teeth). A graduate of Warren Wilson's MFA program for writers, Jamaal teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program.

Jamaal will conduct a weekend-long poetry workshop for OSU creative writing MFA students.  He will also perform a reading of his work on Friday, January 16 at 7pm in the OSU Barnes and Noble (1598 N. High Street) in the Gateway Complex.