Background
Jay Marvin was born as Marvin Jay Cohen in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
2011
Former KHOW radio talk show host Jay Marvin at his Denver home on Friday, April 15, 2011.
(The White Trash Chronicles is another chapter in the on-a...)
The White Trash Chronicles is another chapter in the on-again, the off-again unfolding saga of Jay Marvin's self-proclaimed "Punk Noir" writing style. This collection of poems deals with stormy relationships, down-and-out lives, and life as seen through a muddy camera lens.
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2001
Jay Marvin was born as Marvin Jay Cohen in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Author and radio personality Jay Marvin embarked on his more than thirty-year radio career in 1973 when he became a country-music disk jockey at KWMC in Del Rio, Texas.
During Marvin's early years, he also worked in Charlotte at WAME and at Memphis’ WMPS in the mid to late 70’s. Since graduating into talk radio, he’s been at Chicago’s WLS twice, WJJD, and WJEZ-FM, Milwaukee’s WTMJ, and Denver’s KHOW and KKZN. He also made a couple of stops in Tampa Bay at talkers WPLP/WTKN in 1985-88 and WFLA in 1988-90. Jay announced his retirement from radio in 2010.
As a writer, Marvin has had poems and short stories published in dozens of magazines, small-press works, and journals. He is also a painter and works in computer art.
Marvin's debut novel "Punk Blood" was published in 1998, he also wrote "The White Trash Chronicles" in 2001.
Jay Marvin is a contributor of poems and short stories to publications, including "Sign of the Times", "Black Bear Review", "Nihilistic Review", "Fifth Estate", "New York Quarterly", "Tabula Rasa", "Verse", "Redneck Review of Literature", "Poetry Motel", "White Sands", "New Digressions", "Poetry Ink", and "Atom Mind".
Marvin is also the author of poetry chapbooks "Angel Wings" with Bill Shields, "Two Brothers under the Same Blood-Soaked Cover", and with Paul Weinman "Tasting What You Touch" and of a collection of poems and prose poems "In Your Face: The Midnight Poems of Jay Marvin" and a book of poems and prose "The Devil's Air-Conditioner".
(The White Trash Chronicles is another chapter in the on-a...)
2001Jay has been married for 19 years to his wife, Mary.