JESSICA CARE MOORE is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer, she is the 2019 and 2017 Knight Arts Award Winner, 2016 Kresge Arts Fellow, NAACP Great Expectations Awardee, and an Alain Locke Award recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Moore is the author of The Words Don’t Fit in
My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto, Sunlight Through Bullet Holes, and the critically acclaimed Techno Choreopoem, Salt City. Her work has been published in numerous literary collections and she has performed on stages all over the world, including, The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute for Contemporary Arts. Jessica lives and writes in an historic Detroit neighborhood with her son King Thomas.
In this episode we talk about:
- growing up in Detroit in a working class household going to a Catholic mostly white school until high school and finding her place in different worlds
- speaking up and pushing back politically starting in junior high
- becoming part of Black box theater and how that and her teacher blew her mind and life open
- becoming an activist in college and organizing and bringing people together to make change
- seeing what is missing and creating it from Black Women Rock to her own printing press
- moving to NYC and searching and finding and befriending all of her favorite poets and doing open mics
- winning 5 weeks in a row at Apollo Amateur night (until they retired her)
- having the top literary agent and so much publicity but not getting a book deal so launching her own printing press
- how rock and roll was rebranded for white radio
- how she keeps curating and creating and brining people together
- and so much more!
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why
Get her newest book of poems We Want Our Bodies Back
Find more from jessica at https://jessicacaremoore.com and @jessicacaremoor
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