I’m listing her under “Poetry,” but Jessica Care Moore works in multiple forms — poetry, music, video, performance. Her work highlights the experiences of black women, but she also focuses much of her work on her hometown of Detroit. She’s featured in Howard Bossen and John Beck’s Detroit Resurgent, but the cover image on her website, showing part of one of her poems projected on the Michigan Terminal building captures her connection with this city.
Tag: gender
Last Year’s Jesus, by Ellen Slezak
These stories take us into the lives of mostly younger white working-class women. “Here in Car City” offers an especially thought-provoking exploration of the deindustrialized landscape.
Sweat, by Lynn Nottage
Sweat won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Set mostly in a bar near a steel mill, the play considers how work, class, gender, and race intersect to enable and disrupt solidarity. The play is based on interviews Nottage conducted with workers in Reading.
The Half-Life of Deindustrialization 