Poets in Print: HELENA MESA AND JAMAAL MAY

Name: Poets in Print: HELENA MESA AND JAMAAL MAY
Start: 2024-09-21T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 326 W Kalamazoo Ave, Ste. 103A, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007

Schedule

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

326 W Kalamazoo Ave, Ste. 103A, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007 | Kalamazoo, MI

Join us for our 2024/25 season of our Poets in Print Reading Series! There will be four readings, two in person in the KBAC gallery and two online through zoom.
Our September reading will be held in person and feature Helena Mesa and Jamaal May. More information about broadsides will be posted closer to the date.
Helena Mesa is the author of Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea (Terrapin Books) and Horse Dance Underwater(Cleveland State University Poetry Center), and she is a co-editor for Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, the Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-a-Day” series, and elsewhere. She teaches at Albion College and lives in Ann Arbor.
Jamaal May is the author of Hum and The Big Book of Exit Strategies (Alice James Books). Individual poems appear nationally and internationally, being translated into multiple languages. He is the recipient of numerous honors including The Spirit of Detroit Award, The Benjamin Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Library Association’s Notable Book Award, and two finalist nods for the NAACP Image Award. Jamaal hopes his work can serve as a bridge between interior landscapes and various communities.