James Jay has worked as a bartender, a wild land firefighter, book seller, surveyor, and furniture mover. He owns a bar, Uptown Billiards, with his wife, the musician Alyson Jay. They have three dogs of varying mutt types (pit mix, boxer mix, a coyote mix from parts unknown), who all think they’re very fast.
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Taking this year off from programming for the Northern Arizona Book Festival. With the arrival of baby Wilson there just aren’t enough hours in the day (and the ones that are there I enjoy spending with him). I’m still running the Jim Simmerman High Poetry Prize, however. The deadline is March 1, 2011 and it [...]
Tour went great. More details to come. Betsey Bruner wrote up some info on the tour and the book in the Arizona Daily Sun this Sunday. Slainte! http://www.azdailysun.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/article_2769a0ca-7838-574f-93f9-948981ed367e.html
Made it to Phoenix. Well to Anthem, Arizona actually. Holed up at a Hampton Inn. Nice folks at the desk and customer washer/dryer at the end of the hall. If nothing else, I’m starting this tour with clean, dry, and pressed pants. See you all on the mean streets of poetry.
The Journeymen and Split Rock Tour: Movable Force and Resistible Object Together at Last Poet James Jay and writer Mike Faloon join forces and hit the road for a seven cities in seven days tour de force of spoken word. Book signings, readings, fun for the whole gang as Jay and Faloon read from their [...]