Award-winning poet Jamaal May comes to Gonzaga University this Friday, April 21 for a Question and Answer session with students. The event will take place in the Hemmingson Auditorium from 3:00-4:00pm. All GU students are invited to attend.
Jamaal May is the author of Hum (Alice James Books, 2013) and The Big Book of Exit Strategies (Alice James Books, 2016). His first collection received a Lannan Foundation Grant, American Library Association’s Notable Book Award, and was named a finalist for the Tufts Discovery Award and an NAACP Image Award. Jamaal’s other honors include a Spirit of Detroit Award, the Wood Prize from Poetry, an Indiana Review Prize, and fellowships from The Stadler Center, The Kenyon Review, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. Jamaal May’s poetry explores the tension between opposites to render a sonically rich argument for the interconnectivity of people, worlds, and ideas. He co-directs OW! Arts with Tarfia Faizullah. Find information about Jamaal and some of his poems at his website.
For more information, contact Dr. Jeff Miller in the Department of English.