After her legendary win on the Apollo stage, jessica Care moore was approached by several book publishing companies, but in 1997, she paved her own path and launched a publishing company of her own – Moore Black Press.
But what does she have to do with my, "Women in America" class at MSU. Well, today Jessica Care Moore came back to the college where it all started. Yes! Moore started her career off right here at Michigan State University and today she stopped by her old campus to give us kiddies a reading of her poetry.
I was quite surprised when she took the stage. Normally when someone important comes to give a speech they always act so formal, dress formal, and most certainly speak proper. But she didn't and someone it worked for her.
She immediately grabbed the crowd in. She wasn't afraid to speak her mind. She talked what you could call, "teenage talk", or maybe even a little "ghetto" and periodically swore and cursed. She was funny in an odd, blunt kind of way!
Her writing is obviously about African American life and although I am white Caucasian, I still could very much relate to it.
I've never ever heard of her before today and, therefore, had never read a piece of her work. Today she read us a dozen or so of her poems. Some of her poems talk about blacks and white and how we are all completely the same. After today I kind of conceder her to be a modern day equality activist.
When she reads her poems, she just transformed. To me it sounded a little like rap or something. It was really quite miraculous to hear her read it like that.
Overall, It was a once in a lifetime experience.
If any of you ever get the chance, I highly recommend you see her!
Or. . . If you never get the change to see her, at least go online and google her name and check out her website at: Mooreblackpress.com
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