Time and Poetry

Time and Poetry is a collection ofpoems, essays and short stories written over a period of more than sixty years. Many have never been previously published.

Time. For sixty years, Jay Bryant has taken time from a full life to pen some of the mostreadable and thought provoking poetry and short prose of the age. Here he presents some of the best, with addedcommentaries that taken together form avirtual biography ofa remarkable life.


About the Author

Jay Bryant is a retired speechwriter and communications consultant for U.S. senators, congressmen and governors; a television producer, internet columnist, radio personality, poet and author, he now lives in the “Little House by the Vineyard“ at Union Grove Farm in North Carolina. He has been a commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He and Greg Bohlen collaborated on the novel The Sugar Rat, and the non-fiction work, Common Men. Jay also authored the novel Earth and Water.

Jay was born in Connecticut and grew up in Maine. He and his wife, Susan, were married for 54 years prior to her death in 2021,He matriculated in the Honors Division of the School of Speech at Northwestern University in 1961, and received his graduate degree on an H.B. Earhart Fellowship under the personal sponsorship of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman.