SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014
culture fest
Nashville, TN
Registration Required
POETRY RESIDENCY AND PERFORMANCE WITH SPECIAL PERFORMANCE WITH RUSSELL GUNN IN TRIBUTE TO MARVIN GAYE
POETRY WORKSHOP – Our favorite Detroit Butterfly, jessica care moore, lands in Nashville for a week of residency activities. She wraps her week up by conducting a poetry workshop for poets, would be poets and lovers of poetry. In the 2007 book Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz wrote of jessica’s time in the poetry slam, noting “Her razor-sharp verse confronted and addressed the difficulties of being a black woman and a black poet in a culture that seemed to support neither.” Seven years later, her verse is even sharper and her politics keener.