Our featured poet this month is Alan May visiting us from Knoxville, TN. He will have several poetry books available for purchase. I've attached reviews of his latest book, Derelict Days in That Derelict Town: New and Uncollected Poems.

Additionally, the writing prompt for April is: What One Sees in the Sky

Alan May grew up in Florence, Alabama. He holds a BA from the University of North Alabama and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. He has published four books of poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hollins Critic, The Idaho Review, The New York Quarterly, The New Orleans Review, The Hong Kong Review, and others. He has been an editor for The Black Warrior Review and The Chapbook, and he is currently poetry editor for The Tennes-Sierran. He hosts The Beat, a poetry podcast produced by Knox County Public Library.

Derelict Days in That Derelict Town: New and Uncollected Poems is wide-ranging and far-reaching. The book covers the subjects of rural life, romantic love, early death, gun violence, fathers/forefathers, myths, legends, and real and imaginary monsters. Buy this book and experience what Cintia Santana (author of The Disordered Alphabet) calls "a quirky, at times lonely, playful, and wondrous ride of the imagination."