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Jessica Care Moore Hosts Live Music & Artist Tribute to FELA! 02/18/12
10:30pm
jessica Care moore is a internationally renowned poet, CEO of Moore Black Press and Founder of Black WOMEN Rock! She is the author of the best-selling poetry collections, The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto, and God is Not an American.
She has performed her poems and multi-disciplinary solo theater shows all over the United States, in South Africa, and across Europe. moore is well known for her record breaking historical wins which
led her to Apollo legend status in 1996. A returning star of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and featured poet on Nas' "Nastradamus" Album, she is a well respected published writer and voice of her generation.
She is currently working with emcee, Talib Kweli or her first rock album, Black Tea and is busy writing and recording a new jazz project, "The Legend of Jessi James" Detroit Jazz Poetry Outlaw - which features John Dixon, Kenny Watson, John Douglas, Alex White, Cecelia Sharpe,special guest vocalist
Steffanie Christi'an of Black WOMEN Rock!
, with a special guest appearance by Jose James. www.mooreblackpress.com
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WWW.MOOREBLACKPRESS.COM
JESSICACAREMOORE.NET (under construction)
Coming to a city near you:
THE MISSING PROJECT: Pieces of the D.
FEATURING jessica Care
moore, Antonio "SHADES" Agee, DJ Sicari and
special musical guests, Sax Appeal, Cecilia Sharpe,
of Urban Stringz and others.
jessica Care moore is a internationally renowned poet, playwright, actor, activist, producer and CEO of Moore Black Press. She is the author of The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet
Verses The Ghetto, God is Not an American, and a forthcoming book of
essays, Literary Apartheid. She has performed her poems and solo theater shows all over the United States, in South
Africa, and across Europe. From her Broadway performances at Carnegie Hall, or Harlem's Apollo Theater, London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, to New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, moore believes poems belong everywhere and to everyone.
Her new show, The Missing Project:Pieces of the D is an international storytelling live art music show that features an experimental jazz orchestra and the work of graffiti artist Antonio "Shades" Agee.Her debut rock album, Black Tea will be out when it's finished! moore continues to push the boundaries of genre, with her first conceptual art installation, NANOC: I Sing The Body Electric, opening at Dell Pryor Gallery in 2011. She lives in Detroit, where she is completing her memoir, Love is Not the Enemy, and raising the 4-year old love of her life, King Thomas.
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Check out this link for Moore Black Press 2012 author appearances
and performances!!
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=92cb1dac930f3ee26b19d60a6&id=a4e1621fc6&e=e76631c0dc
poet/multi-media and conceptual artist/activist/publisher/rockstar
writer/playwright/concert producer/conduit/mommy...
i want a love
the world might remember
like that first detroit winter
it didn't snow in december..
-jcm
www.mooreblackpress.com (new site in development)
www.blackwomenrock.com
www.jessicacaremoore.com 2012 launch
social media sites:
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www.facebookcom/jessicacaremoore
twitter/jessicacaremoor
This poem is a petition:
http://youtu.be/9o4tBqwPH1U
nastradamus
http://youtu.be/I9vaRt4bPZw










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