Jay Robinson is the co-author of The Czar. He teaches at Ashland University and The University of Akron. He’s also the Co-Editor-in-Chief/Reviews Editor for Barn Owl Review and helps edit The Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. Poetry and prose has appeared in 32 Poems, The Laurel Review, Poetry, Whiskey Island, among others. The Czar, forthcoming in August 2016, is his first book.
The Czar is in! It’s a crazy feeling to hold your first book in your hands, to open that box, to share it with close friends, family. I wrote about this on Facebook, so I don’t really want to retread on this post, but its been exactly what I thought it would be and more. The book is gorgeous, and the response to the book has been so positive and wonderful.