News Release
Broadside Press Poet's Theatre features Jessica Care Moore & Aurora Harris
This Sunday, the Broadside Press Poets’ Theater, sponsored by the Dudley Randall Center will be moving to the Grounds Coffee House on the McNichols Campus for its next poetry event. 
For over 20 years the Poets’ Theater has provided writing workshops; presentations by writers, thinkers, and artistic performers who have impacted literacy in Detroit and/or globally; and open mike sessions for metro Detroit’s community and student writers. These events take place the third Sunday of each month.
On November 16th at 3 p.m., the Poets’ Theater will feature renowned poets Jessica Care Moore and Aurora Harris. Readings will be followed by an open mike session.
For more information, contact Rosemary Weatherston, Director, Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture at weatherr@udmercy.edu.
This event is open to the public and a $5 donation is suggested but not required.
Jessica Care Moore, formerly from Detroit, is an internationally renowned poet/publisher/activist/rock artist/playwright and actor, winning famed five times on “Showtime at the Apollo” winner and featured on Russell Simmon's HBO Series, Def Poetry Jam.
After her legendary win on the Apollo stage, Moore paved her own path and launched a publishing company of her own – Moore Black Press and published her best selling book; The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth, and her second collection of poetry, The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto, MBP is home to some of the most well known poets of her generation in the world.
She has performed for audiences all around the world, including, England, Holland, Scotland, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Berlin, Paris and Toulouse. The artist has been widely published in several major anthologies. She is the youngest poet featured in the Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women Writers.
Moore has shared stages with the late great Ossie Davis, CeCe Winans, Anthony David, Norah Jones, Amiri Baraka, Patti Labelle, Roy Ayers, Mos Def, The Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez and many more.
She is currently working on her third release, God is Not an American, along with a multi media solo show scheduled for a NYC premiere in April 2009 at the famed Apollo Theater.
Aurora Harris is also an award winning published and performance poet, educator, community worker, conference organizer and mentor. She is the former coach and member of the Detroit National Poetry Slam teams (1995-2004). Harris is currently an honors graduate student at Eastern Michigan University in the Social Foundations of Program-Cultural Studies. And a former editorial sssistant of Educational Studies: the Journal of the American Educational Studies Association.
Aurora has been featured with the Last Poets, Jessica Hagedorn, Russell Banks, Jayne Cortez, Sekou Sundiata, Khari Kimani Turner and jazz artists Straight Ahead, Marcus Belgraves, Teddy Harris and Roy Hargrove. Publications include: Educational Studies; New Working Class Studies, Cornell University Press; Broadside Press Poets In The House; One Note; What Words Are There?; Wayne State Literary Review; Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing; Abandon Automobile, Wayne State University Press, Drumvoices Review, Southern Illinois University. In her spare time she works as a reporter for Encode Media Group and Colours T.V.
Release date: November 05, 2008
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