By Mark I. West February 21, 2023 Junious “Jay” Ward moved to Charlotte in 2006, and has since become one of the city’s best-known poets. His slam poetry performances are epic and fierce with a rarely seen emotional power. In 2018, he and members of SlamCharlotte won the National Poetry Slam Poetry Championship in Chicago. … Continue reading Charlotte Poet Laureate Junious “Jay” Ward has released his first poetry collection, ‘Composition’