Alan May holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. His latest book is Ad Infinitum! New and Selected Poems 1995-2025. May’s poems have appeared in New Orleans Review, The Idaho Review, The New York Quarterly, The Hollins Critic, Plume, The Hong Kong Review, and others. He lives in Knoxville, TN.
Praise for Alan May’s poetry:
“[Alan May’s] vivid imagination expresses itself in brilliant juxtapositions of imagery and language. His work has an immediate power and, beneath its often-absurdiste surface, is rich and haunting.”—Bill Knott
“Dead Letters is a work of great beauty and force, of intelligence and stark humility.”—Maurice Manning
“The quirky wrapping of these poems peels away to reveal that, against all odds, underneath the everyday horrors of the world, survives a tenderness, alive, capacious, nothing less than miraculous.”—Cintia Santana