Afternoon of Poetry and Prose with Junious 'Jay' Ward, Charlotte Poet Laureate

Name: Afternoon of Poetry and Prose with Junious 'Jay' Ward, Charlotte Poet Laureate
Start: 2026-02-08T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-08T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Bakhita Arts, 902 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC, United States, South Carolina 29730

Schedule

Sun Feb 08 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bakhita Arts, 902 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC, United States, South Carolina 29730 | Rock Hill, SC

Join us for an Afternoon of Poetry & Prose with Junious 'Jay' Ward, Poet Laureate of Charlotte, NC! Jay will present his work for the first half of the gathering. We will then break for refreshments, book signing, and mingling with friends. Stick around for the second half of our program with a great lineup of readers for our "open mic."
Learn more about our featured author:
Junious 'Jay' Ward is an Emmy nominated poet and teaching artist living in Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (Button Poetry 2023). Jay currently serves as Charlotte's inaugural Poet Laureate and is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and current Writer in Residence for Charlotte Lit. Ward has attended Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Watering Hole and Tin House Winter Workshop. His work can be found in Columbia Journal, Four Way Review, DIAGRAM, Diode Poetry Journal and elsewhere.