Jessica Care Moore coming to LSSU

NEWS RELEASE

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

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SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – Detroit’s Jessica Care Moore, an internationally renowned poet and spoken-word performance artist who has been called “totally kinetic and disarmingly wise,” will be appearing at Lake Superior State University on Monday, April 4.

Moore will perform and greet guests in a reception from 7-9 p.m. in the Crow’s Nest in the LSSU Walker Cisler Center. The reading and reception will feature light hors d’oeuvres.

An informal class with Moore, focusing on her process, will follow the next day, at 11 a.m. on April 5, also in the Crow’s Nest. Both events are open to the public. Admission is free.

Moore’s visit is part of the LSSU Visiting Writer Series, organized and sponsored by the LSSU Dept. of English to bring highly-acclaimed authors and poets to campus for a shared literary experience with the community and to raise awareness of LSSU’s creative writing program.

Attendees will have the opportunity to experience Moore reading her work, answering questions about her writing process, and signing copies of her books, which will be made available for purchase by the LSSU campus bookstore.

Moore has written several poetry collections, including: The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto, God is Not an American, and Sunlight through Bullet Holes, and her poetry has been published in many literary collections.

She is the youngest poet published in the Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women’s Literature. 

Saying that she has “no problem getting loud” to make her point, she has performed at some of the most famous venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Moore is also a publisher, activist, rock musician, playwright, and actor.

She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner; was featured on hip-hop mega-star, Nas' "Nastradamus" album, and was a returning star of the HBO Series, Def Poetry Jam.

She is one of the stars of the documentary, Slamnation! and one of the featured artists in the PBS special I'll Make Me a World.

Moore is the CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black Women Rock! and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. 

She has participated in the Black Arts Festival in Atlanta and the Langston Hughes National Poetry Circle Project.

She is the 2013 Alain Locke Award recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts.

LSSU offers both an undergraduate major and minor concentration in creative writing. The program encourages innovation and experimentation as students develop their voices.

Students complete coursework in prose, poetry, and performance writing, and are given opportunities to get publishing experience before graduation.

Learn more about at lssu.edu/english/creativewritingatlssu.

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