Jessica Care Moore : Live Poetry Reading at Sankofa!

Jessica Care Moore is the 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 2013 Alain Locke Award Recipient from the Detroit  Institute of Arts. Moore is the author of We Want Our Bodies Back, The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto, God is Not an American, Sunlight Through Bullet Holes, and a memoir, Love is Not The Enemy.  Her poetry has been heard on stages like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center  and the London Institute of Contemporary Arts. She has performed on  every continent. jessica Care moore believes poems belong everywhere and  to everyone.

Born in Detroit, jessica Care moore first came to national prominence  when she won on the legendary “It’s Showtime at the Apollo” competition a  record breaking five times in a row. Her searing performance of the  poem “Black Statue of Liberty” earned moore several meetings with high  profile publishing companies, but in 1997, she paved her own path and  launched a publishing company of her own, Moore Black Press. She  released her first book, The Words Don’t Fit In My Mouth, and  sold more than 20,000 copies. Along with her own work, she proudly  published famed poets such Saul Williams, Shariff Simmons, Def Poetry  Jam’s co-founder Danny Simmons, NBA player Etan Thomas, Ras Baraka and  former Essence Magazine editor Asha Bandele.