BIO (from http://www.harpercollins.com ):

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.

BIO ( from http://www.encyclopedia.com ):

Moore was born in Detroit on October 28, 1971. Detroit is more known for automobiles and for popular music than for its writing scene, but she was exposed to poetry as a student at the city’s Cody High School. She attended Michigan State University in Lansing and Wayne State University in Detroit, writing for campus newspapers at both schools, but her first experience placing her poetry before a group came later. “I didn’t start reading out loud to strangers until ’94,” she told the Cincinnati City Beat. ” My dad passed and I read a poem and people were very impressed by that.”

PIECES:

You Want Poems

TedX Detroit – A Poem Saved my Life

Def Poetry Jam – I’m a Hip Hop Cheerleader

Keep Falling For Michigan – Pure Michigan

Black Statue of Liberty

SUPPORT / INFORMATIONAL LINKS:

Kresge Arts in Detroit

https://kresgeartsindetroit.org/artist/jessica-care-moore/

An Interview with Jessica Care Moore

https://www.theauburnavenue.com/jessica-care-moore-interview

Quotes by Jessica Care Moore

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/448897.Jessica_Care_Moore