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An Interview with Jay Green: Author of Milieu

Isaiah “Jay” Green is a writer from Monroe, Louisiana. He has been writing stories and poetry since the age of twelve and has produced three books of poetry at the time of this interview. Jay currently resides in San Antonio, TX.

Tell us about your book.

Milieu acts as social commentary on our current American culture and political discourse in the form of poetry.

Why did you want to write a book?

I wanted to write this book to “voice my opinion” in a sense. After becoming more aware of the current events I was seeing on the news, internet, […]

Review: Milieu by Jay Green

Twenty-three socially weighted poems become one strong stance on what it means to be a young man in America today, and furthermore, what it means to be a Black man, in Jay Green’s emotive Milieu. This essential part of Green’s identity must be highlighted in the turbulent times in which we live, and his personal experience informs his work to a powerful degree.

In this sharply tuned collection, the poems are varied in form, mostly strong, and very rhythmic. The opening work, “Mortal Games,” channels Ralph Ellison’s work such as Invisible Man, as the rich tapestry of […]