Joe Milford Hosts Alan May and Maurice Manning

Maurice Manning was a Guggenheim fellow for 2011-2012. His fourth book of poetry, The Common Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. Manning teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Transylvania University in Lexington. Most recently Manning received the Lee Smith Award from Lincoln Memorial University. He lives in Kentucky.
 

Alan May's poems have appeared in The New Orleans Review, DIAGRAM, The Nervous Breakdown, Spell, string of small machines, and others. His book Dead Letters was published in 2008 and his e-chap Tracking Systems is available for free at The Argotist Online. Alan is a part-time lecturer in the Information Science Program at the University of Tennessee.