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Inner Moonlight

By Logen Cure for The Wild Detectives

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry podcast for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for poetry and conversation. Hosted by DFW poet, Logen Cure. Presented by the Writer's Garret.
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Inner Moonlight: Fifth Anniversary

Inner MoonlightMay 25, 2023

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Inner Moonlight: Fifth Anniversary

Inner Moonlight: Fifth Anniversary

The second Wednesday of every month since 2018 (minus the hiatus due to the ongoing pandemic), Logen Cure has hosted the Inner Moonlight, a monthly poetry reading and open mic. Since December 2020, the reading has also been a podcast. This episode contains Inner Moonlight's Fifth Anniversary celebration from 5/10/2023, which also served as the kickoff event for the first ever Dallas Is Lit! literary festival. Inner Moonlight celebrated five years of literary magic with encore performances by an incredible lineup of 12 previously featured poets in the order in which they originally appeared:


1. Robin Myrick – April 2021

2. Joe Milazzo – May 2021

3. Shug Avery – December 2021

4. Matt Baker – January 2022

5. Alan Gann – March 2022

6. Kim Nall – April 2022

7. Chris George – May 2022

8. Ayesha Asad – June 2022

9. Alex Temblador – August 2022

10. James Davis – October 2022

11. Laura Neal – January 2023

12. Lauren Brazeal Garza – March 2023


Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/


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May 25, 202301:14:27
Inner Moonlight: Graham Barnhart

Inner Moonlight: Graham Barnhart

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. The in-person show is the second Wednesday of every month in the Wild Detectives backyard. We love our podcast fans, so we release recordings of the live performances every month for y'all! On 4/12/23, we featured poet Graham Barnhart.

Graham Barnhart is a US Army veteran, and author of the poetry collection The War Makes Everyone Lonely. His poetry has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize, The Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The University of North Texas and lives in Denton.

Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/

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Apr 26, 202337:53
Inner Moonlight: Lauren Brazeal Garza
Mar 29, 202327:21
Inner Moonlight: Jenny Bhatt
Feb 26, 202338:07
Inner Moonlight: Laura Neal

Inner Moonlight: Laura Neal

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. We make poetry magic on the second Wednesday of every month. We have returned to the Wild Detectives in person, but fret not, podcast fans! We will be releasing recordings of the live show every month for y'all. On 1/11/23, we featured poet Laura Neal.

Laura Neal is a poet, greatly influenced by social and environmental narratives. She earned an MFA from the University of Maryland College Park and a BA from Bowie State University. Her work is published in Academy of American Poets and Birmingham Poetry Review, among others. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, CALLALOO, and the Juanita Craft Artist-in-Residence Program. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and finalist for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at Dallas and is a contributing writer for Southwest Contemporary magazine and BURNAWAY magazine. She is also co-member of the artist collaborative, CALCIUM.

Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/

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Jan 26, 202325:36
Inner Moonlight: Tarfia Faizullah
Dec 28, 202236:26
Inner Moonlight: Melissa Ginsburg
Nov 24, 202235:17
Inner Moonlight: James Davis
Oct 26, 202235:52
Inner Moonlight: Bruce Bond
Sep 29, 202245:46
Inner Moonlight: Alex Temblador
Aug 24, 202227:36
Inner Moonlight: Candy
Jul 27, 202242:30
Inner Moonlight: Ayesha Asad

Inner Moonlight: Ayesha Asad

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. We make poetry magic on the second Wednesday of every month. We have returned to the Wild Detectives in person, but fret not, podcast fans! We will be releasing recordings of the live show every month for y'all. On 6/8/22, we featured poet Ayesha Asad!

Ayesha Asad is from Dallas, Texas. Her work has been included in the 2020 Best of the Net Anthology, and her writing appears or is forthcoming in PANK, diode poetry journal, DIAGRAM, Sundog Lit, Cosmonauts Avenue, Zone 3, The Boiler, and elsewhere. Her writing was longlisted for the 2022 Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize and has been recognized by Best of the Net, Creative Writing Ink Journal, and the Robert Bone Memorial Creative Writing Prize. Currently, she is an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Dallas. In her free time, she likes to dream.

Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/

www.logencure.com/innermoonlight

Jun 23, 202224:49
Inner Moonlight: Chris George

Inner Moonlight: Chris George

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. We make poetry magic on the second Wednesday of every month. We have returned to the Wild Detectives in person, but fret not, podcast fans! We will be releasing recordings of the live show every month for y'all. On 5/11/22, we featured fiction-writer and poet Chris George!

Chris George is the author of THE OCCULTATION (Surveyor Books). He is a writer, educator, and artist who lives and works in Dallas, TX. You can find him virtually at christopherdgeorge.com

Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/ 

www.logencure.com/innermoonlight 

May 25, 202222:38
Inner Moonlight: Kim Nall
Apr 28, 202222:18
Inner Moonlight: Alan Gann
Mar 24, 202229:42
Inner Moonlight: Emily Ramser
Feb 23, 202233:43
Inner Moonlight: Matthew W. Baker

Inner Moonlight: Matthew W. Baker

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. We make poetry magic on the second Wednesday of every month. We have returned to the Wild Detectives in person, but fret not, podcast fans! We will be releasing recordings of the live show every month for y'all. On 1/12/22, we featured poet Matthew W. Baker.

Matthew W. Baker currently lives in Dallas where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature from the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of Undoing the Hide’s Taut Musculature (2019), and other work has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Briar Cliff Review, The Baltimore Review, The Summerset Review, Booth Journal, and Sundog Lit, among others. You can follow him on Twitter at @mmbakes.

Jan 21, 202229:04
Inner Moonlight: Shug Avery

Inner Moonlight: Shug Avery

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. We make magic on the second Wednesday of every month. We have returned to the Wild Detectives in person, but fret not, podcast fans! We will be releasing recordings of the live show every month for y'all. On 12/8/21, we featured the legendary Shug Avery.

Leanetta “Shug” Avery is a poet and performer, born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Elm Thicket located in Dallas, Texas. She is the former TV host of Alternative Scream out of Houston, co-founder of Texas A&M’s Mic Check in College Station, and two-time performer of Rickey Smiley’s “Big City Talent." She currently serves as co-host of The Local Source podcast, which highlights minority owned businesses and engaging topics centered around race, gender, sexual orientation and religion. Learn more at www.thepoetshug.com.

Dec 15, 202146:33
Inner Moonlight: Vic Victory
Nov 17, 202127:12
Inner Moonlight: Logen Cure
Oct 20, 202143:60
Inner Moonlight: Loretta Diane Walker

Inner Moonlight: Loretta Diane Walker

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to award-winning poet, Loretta Diane Walker.

Loretta Diane Walker, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, is a Best of the Net Nominee and a nine-time Pushcart Nominee, won the 2021 William D. Barney Memorial Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Fort Worth Poetry Society wit the collection From the Cow’s Eye and Other Poems, the 2016 Phyllis Wheatley Book Award for In This House and the 2011 Bluelight Press Book Award for Word Ghetto. Her work has appeared in various literary journals, magazines, and anthologies throughout the United States, Canada, India, Ireland, and the UK. She has published six collections of poetry. Her full-length manuscript, Day Begins When Darkness is In Full Bloom, (Bluelight Press) is scheduled for release in 2021. Loretta received a BME from Texas Tech University and earned a MA from The University of Texas of the Permian Basin. She teaches elementary music at Reagan Magnet School, Odessa, Texas.

Sep 08, 202138:44
Inner Moonlight: Lindsay Illich

Inner Moonlight: Lindsay Illich

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to poet and professor Lindsay Illich.

Lindsay Illich is the author of Fingerspell (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Rile & Heave (Texas Review Press, 2017), and Heteroglossia (Anchor & Plume, 2016). Rile & Heave won the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize in Poetry. She also co-authored  Teach Living Poets (NCTE, 2021) with Melissa Smith. She teaches writing at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts.  

Aug 11, 202139:45
Inner Moonlight: Lauren Berry
Jul 14, 202141:37
Inner Moonlight: Paige Quiñones

Inner Moonlight: Paige Quiñones

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to poet Paige Quiñones.

Paige Quiñones is the author of The Best Prey, which received the 2020 Pleiades Press Lena Miles-Wever Todd Prize for Poetry. She has received awards and fellowships from the Center for Mexican-American Studies, the Academy of American Poets, and Inprint Houston. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Juked, Lambda Literary, Orion Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from the Ohio State University and is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Houston, where she teaches community workshops and is a writer at Writers in the Schools.

Jun 09, 202130:60
Inner Moonlight: Joe Milazzo
May 12, 202138:08
Inner Moonlight: Robin Myrick

Inner Moonlight: Robin Myrick

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to Dallas poet Robin Myrick.

Robin Myrick is a writer and visual artist, and the author of I AM THIS STATE OF EMERGENCY, the debut title from Dallas indie press Surveyor Books. She holds an MFA in Writing and Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts and has also studied in the Humanities-Aesthetic Studies doctoral program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work often engages the ephemeral or mediated moment, as expressed through film and television, portraiture and the rhetoric of identity, politics, consumerism and disaster. Robin has taught at St. Edward’s University, UT Dallas, Collin College and other fine institutions, but currently makes her weekly hay in the wilds of higher education SEO and digital marketing.

Apr 07, 202137:40
Inner Moonlight: Rebecca Balcárcel

Inner Moonlight: Rebecca Balcárcel

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to novelist and poet, Rebecca Balcárcel.

Rebecca Balcárcel’s debut novel, THE OTHER HALF OF HAPPY is a Pura Belpré Honor Book and ALSC Notable Book that was named one of the Top Ten First Novels of 2019 by the American Library Association. Rebecca took her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. St. Mary’s University published her book of poems, Palabras in Each Fist in 2009. Find her on YouTube as the Sixminutescholar. She loves popcorn, her kitty, and teaching her students at Tarrant County College as Associate Professor of English.

Mar 10, 202140:53
Inner Moonlight: Katy Dycus

Inner Moonlight: Katy Dycus

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to the multi-talented Katy Dycus!

A native Fort Worth, Texan, Katy now works in Madrid, Spain. She writes for the anthropology journal Mammoth Trumpet and is a Wild Detectives contributor.

Feb 10, 202138:34
Inner Moonlight: Brittany Griffiths

Inner Moonlight: Brittany Griffiths

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for poetry and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to local poet Brittany Griffiths!

Brittany Griffiths is a writer/editor/publisher from Dallas, Texas. She is the founder of Spontaneous Afflatus, an independent publishing house that specializes in poetry and short story collections. Brittany is also the editor and co-founder of Wavelength Magazine, a Dallas-based cultural arts magazine that focuses on film, art, literature, and music in North Texas. She published her debut collection of poems titled, Ebb & Flow, through Spontaneous Afflatus in October 2017. She currently works at the University of Texas at Arlington as the Library Publishing Specialist. 

NOTE: This episode released in January 2021, but was recorded in 2020. When Brittany and Logen say "next year," they mean 2021!

Jan 13, 202125:05
Inner Moonlight: Dani Quesenberry

Inner Moonlight: Dani Quesenberry

Inner Moonlight is back! We are the monthly reading series for the Wild Detectives and we have returned as a podcast! I'm your host, Logen Cure, and I'm stoked to bring you one writer an episode for poetry and conversation. My first guest is longtime friend, Dani Quesenberry. 

Dani Quesenberry is a poet residing somewhere in the woods of rural Georgia. By day, she works for an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. By night, she writes poems exploring her childhood and struggles with queer identity in the rural South. She also names her plants and likes to report the location of cops on Waze.

Dec 09, 202029:06