If I don’t read something, I’m just gonna stand here and cry. So, whatupdoe?

Awwwww. So said Detroit’s newly appointed poet laureate, jessica Care moore, stylized as you see here, lower-case ‘j’, capital ‘C’, lower-case ‘m’. But there is nothing “lower-case” about her.

Jessica Care Moore, founder and producer of Black WOMEN Rock! [something I’ve known pretty much all my life – r² ] and founder of The Moore Art House, a nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in Detroit, will take on the role. Moore’s identifiable voice was behind the “Move the World” campaign, a video used to make a pitch for an Amazon headquarters in Detroit. The new poet laureate took the stage at Newlab at Michigan Central in the most Moore way — by poetically thanking officials for her position and reading a poem.

Moore is filling the role for [the late Naomi Long] Madgett, who died at 97 years old and served as poet laureate from 2001 to 2020, the year she died. Moore will not only plan and lead poetry events across Detroit, but she will also give an annual address to the city at the Detroit Public Library, participate in programs that reflect the city’s diversity and write a poem for year-end presentation, according to the city.

“Wait a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow minute, here!” I can hear the less troglodyte of you cry. “With all the AI-ChatGPT-antisemitism-uncommited-tankie-donbas-crimea-shut-up-pornstar-red-vs-blue-dopamine-gazing-at-your-digital-navel-meta-x-amazon distractions we’ve got buzzing around our heads like mosquitoes in a Florida swamp, we can’t keep up on the Detroit poetry front. What’s jessica Care moore ever written?”…

• Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth
• God is Not an American
• Black Statute of Liberty

Congratulations, Ms (with a capital ‘M’) moore! ❤️‍🔥

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Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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