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Toure Show

Jessica Care Moore—I Am Poetry

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:26.0

Did a free lifetime subscription while you can at podcast magazine.com. dot com. Jessica Caremore is a really powerful, intriguing, young poet from Detroit. I think I want to start by getting the people fully immersed in your work. The new book is called We Want Our Bodies Back.

1:05.0

Filled with amazing poems and just so they understand the sort of poet you are and also because you have always been a very performative poet.

1:16.4

It doesn't just live on the page.

1:18.3

It's on the mic.

1:20.0

You know a lot of people first knew you from Deaf Poetry Jam and The Apollo.

1:24.0

The Apollo.

1:24.8

And so I mean, like, let's start by hearing a poem.

1:30.7

And I think maybe the title poem,

1:36.4

we want our bodies back,

1:37.8

and then you can talk about how you wrote it and what it means.

1:42.0

How it means, yeah.

1:43.0

Okay, so we want our bodies back for Sandra Bland.

1:46.0

If black women could be cut down,

1:49.0

nor we moved gently from American terrorism,

1:52.0

who would break our fall? Which direction

1:54.5

will we travel to feel safe? Wild is the wind. If we could turn in the skin

1:58.8

these sharpened bones, his brain full of power and history, who will we

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