The closing of public spaces has not impeded the Hammonds House Museum from sharing creative content.
The Hammonds House digital series is presenting an evening with Detroit poet jessica Care moore. She’ll read from her new poetry collection, “We Want Our Bodies Back.” The poetry addresses those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race.
“City Lights” host Lois Reitzes spoke with the poet via Zoom about her upcoming event.
Interview Highlights
The story behind her name:
“The lower case ‘j’ in jessica and ‘m’ in moore is in homage to bell hooks. I think for us as young women coming into ourselves, young black womenist thinkers, bell hooks was one of our heroes and still is. Care I capitalize because it was the name I took for myself. I was born a jessica and moore, but Care was a name I was given as a young activist at Wayne State University’s campus. My best friend Ken used to call me ‘Care Bear’ and said ‘jessica, you just care about everyone. You want to save the world and feed the homeless and stop racism.’ That’s what I was on my college campus, was a little ball of fire,” said moore.
