“In poetry I can be free and I can be me without formalities, rules, shame,regrets or chain … me!”

Arthur McKay is a native of Tampa, Florida, who begins his creative venture as a local actor performing in many commercials, television
shows, and stage plays. Arthur later focuses on directing, writing, and producing his original plays. Arthur
founded a youth community theater group named “Anthony Arthur’s Youth Theater Troupe” (AAYTT) to
perform his original plays. The Troupe performed many youth-oriented productions, allowing the youth to
express on stage the issues and concerns plaguing their lives. Arthur later became the drama ministry
director of various local churches. The Arthur McKay Production company emerged from the many church
plays he produced, which gave him opportunities to present and perform many of his original poems.
Arthur’s poetry adventure begins as a coping intervention that helped him deal with his brother’s tragic
death; the later Roger McKay Jr. Poetry…