Poet James Davis May will continue Lee University’s Writer’s Festival with a free reading tonight, Nov. 9, at 7 o’clock in the School of Nursing building, Room 202, on the Cleveland, Tenn., campus.
May is the author of “Unquiet Things,” a book of poems chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winner Claudia Emerson as the second volume in the Goat Island Poetry series.
“May invites his readers to ponder skunk cabbages, frogs, basil plants and orca whales. He suggests that our encounters with living things like these can remind us of grace,” says Dr. William Woolfitt, assistant professor of creative writing at Lee.
“We are so glad that he is coming to give a public reading and to talk with our students about his experiences as a writer.”
May’s poems have appeared in national journals such as Five Points, The Missouri Review, New England Review, New Ohio Review, New Republic, Rattle and The Southern Review. In 2013, he won the Collins Award from Birmingham Poetry Review.