Cowboy Poet – Who Knew?

Keith Ward performing an original poem at The Pizza Shop and Dry County Brewing Company’s Open Mic Night in Spruce Pine, NC on January 19th, 2013.

Ward has been writing poetry since childhood, and he attended his first open mic poetry gathering in 2008.  Since then, Ward has continued writing and performing.  “My only connection to the west as a boy were those old TV westerns,” Ward recalls in the introduction to his poem “My Heart Beats Free.”  Ward brings the spirit of the west to his life as a horse trail guide and through his poetry.