Reading: Jamaal May and Matthew Olzmann

Readings by these Detroit-born poets. May is a 2-time World Poetry Slam finalist whose chapbooks feature syntactically limpid, vividly figured, playfully riddling poems on quotidian themes. Olzmann’s 2013 collection, Mezzanines, won a Kundiman Poetry Prize. He’s been praised for his exuberantly thoughtful style and wide-ranging subject matter. Reception & signing.