jessica Care moore  

September 15 through October 3 
Kresge Artist Fellow Talk: Thursday, September 24, 12-1pm

ONE DETROIT: Detroit Public Television Interview:
https://video.dptv.org/video/wayne-state-billboard-arts-event-k220h0/?fbclid=IwAR2YddGLgLcuRgc5RLfuZ2_jpyIFH3Z6_v-ZOILjnwicdSgfC2ki7CRPHlU

IN THE AIR: VOICES FROM DETROIT AND BEYOND debuts with work by jessica Care moore, on view September 15 through October 3, 2020.  To accompany the piece, an online artist talk will be held on Thursday, September 24, 12-1pm.  

Known internationally as a poet, activist, institution builder and supporter of independent artists, jessica is the author of five collections of poetry.  Her current book, We Want Our Bodies Back was published by Harper Collins/Amistad this year.  She has written and performed several multi-media theater shows and is the curator of the largest rock and roll concert weekend amplifying the voices of black women rock artists, “Black WOMEN Rock!”

A Knight Arts, Kresge and Joyce Award winner, moore penned the critically acclaimed Techno Choreopoem, Salt City. Her recently released music project, The Beneficiaries, is a collaboration with techno legends Jeff Mills and Eddie Fowlkes.  Jessica creates and lives in the tradition of Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement writers, with a specific interest in the balance of poetry & sound and art as a tool of liberation.  www.jessicacaremoore.com

Jim Crow ain’t never flown with this much wingspan
Eagles running for safety now.
For the reach is deep & southern & midwest
shadows the east
lands in the west
Texas — you will always be Mexico
in denial.
Poet, Ron Allen, asked for his body back in 1996
and we are still waiting. 

We want our bodies back We want our bodies back We want our bodies back

We want them returned to mothers
without blood without brains exposed
without humiliation without bruises
without glass without fire
we want our bodies back 

- jessica Care moore