Alan May (born 1970 in Florence, Alabama) is an American poet. His work has appeared in The New Orleans Review, Willow Springs, Phoebe, Double Room, The Laurel Review, Interim, Kulture Vulture, string of small machines, E-ratio, and poetrymagazines.org.uk. His first book, a collaboration with the artist Tom Wegrzynowski, is available through Port Silver Press. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama Creative Writing Program.

He is the founding editor of Apocryphaltext, a journal that publishes a wide range of literary and experimental work.

Poetry

The poems in Notes toward an Apocryphal Text are prose poetry. They address address violence, religious fundamentalism, and, less overtly, U.S. politics.

"With its title, Notes recalls Wallace Steven's great poem "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction," but if the poetry of Wallace Stevens takes us toward the end of the mind, May's poetry displays what folows. Words become primal elements that release charges of energy and pathos... With a masterful sense of play, the poems and images of Notes wrench us from our small inner dramas into a world where everything is at stake and reality is revealed by a mask that perpetually removes itself, eluding us as long as we grasp for it..." -- New Orleans Review

References

Notes Toward an Apocryphal Text (2006)<br />
"Notes toward an Apocryphal Text [poems by Alan May, images by Tom Wegrzynowski]New Orleans Review, Vol. 33:2<br />
interview.htm "Interview with Alan May," The Argotist. Retrieved on 2007-9-1.<br />
"Response and Bio,"Double Room 7. Retrieved on 2007-9-1.<br />
Poems at Thicket Retrieved on 2007-9-4. <br />
"Self-Portrait with Loaded Weapon." at Perihelion<br />
"Horses of Achilles" at Poetry Library on the South Bank<br />

External links

May Poetry.htm Alan May's poems at Port Silver<br />

interview.htm Interview with Alan May at the Argotist<br />

Alan May's Response and Bio at Double Room<br />

Review of Apocryphaltext at Eclectica