R Jay Slais was born in Pontiac in the early 1960s and grew up in West Bloomfield, Michigan in the Lakes Area of Oakland County. He currently writes from his home near Romeo, Michigan, about 30 miles northeast of Detroit, where he is a single parent raising his two teenagers. He makes a living as an engineer and inventor for a Metro Detroit automotive industry supplier and has been fortunate enough to have earned 10 US patents and many foreign patents so far. He is a former magazine editor as well as an artist and has always held creative endeavors very close to his heart. R Jay fell in love with poetry and himself on the same day. Since then, he has worked the craft becoming widely published in literary magazines some of which include Barnwood Poetry Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine, MiPOesias, Pedestal Magazine, and Rose & Thorn Journal. Mice Verses Man is R Jay’s first collection of poetry. He can be reached at Rjay61@comcast.net.

“R Jay Slais is a dynamic poet, whose first collection, Mice Verses Man, is destined to fly from the shelves. Troubadour21.com recommends this book to all those who appreciate outstanding talent and wonderful poetry.”
~ W.B. Burkholder, Troubadour21

“R Jay Slais will turn your mouth into a harp, and with it you'll mourn what's lost always. Here are the deaths of children by disease and drugs, the destruction of a marriage, a world haunted by dead parents, and so much brutally more. At the same time, these poems resist despair, and that clash climaxes in exultant moments of lyrical trembling. It often begins so quietly, in close observations of the quotidian, the mundane, before spreading outward, quickly, in concentric circles soon to enclose you in their world. Such is the pleasure of Mice Verses Man.”
~ Seth Michelson, House in a Hurricane

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