Indie on Wheels – ImaginOn
Run Time: 27 min. Release Year: 2026
2pm – 4pm | Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Location: ImaginOn, 300 East Seventh St., Charlotte, NC 28202
Join IPH at ImaginOn for a free community screening of A Child’s Garden of Poetry (2011).
Poetry classics are brought to animated life with readings by Liam Neeson, Claire Danes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Carrie Fisher, Jeffrey Wright, Ziggy Marley, and more. A magical mix featuring some of the world’s greatest writers — from William Shakespeare to Langston Hughes — and kids reciting their favorites straight from the heart.
Special Guest: Jay Ward, Charlotte Poet Laureate
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.