Junious ‘Jay’ Ward is a poet, teaching artist, and Charlotte, NC’s inaugural Poet Laureate. He is the author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (forthcoming Button Poetry 2022), and is also a National Slam champion (2018), and an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019). Jay currently serves as a Program Director for BreatheInk and vice chair on the board of The Watering Hole. Ward has attended Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, Callaloo, The Watering Hole, and Tin House Winter Workshop. His work can be found in Columbia Journal, Four Way Review, Diode Poetry Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.
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