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 12/11/2024, we featured poet Andie Salm Carver!

Andie Salm Carver (they/she) is a queer writer and activist. They received their MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University, and their chapbook poetry collection, TRAILER TRASH, was originally published through Bottlecap Press. Andie lives in the Dallas Metroplex with their little cat, Young Bernie Sanders. You can read more of their work at ModusOperandiee.com.

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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 11/13/2024, we featured poet Caroline Earleywine!

Caroline Earleywine is a poet and educator who spent ten years teaching high school English in Central Arkansas. She’s a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, was a 2021 finalist for Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and has work in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Barrelhouse, NAILED Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Queens University in Charlotte and her chapbook, Lesbian Fashion Struggles, was published with Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020. She was a winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, and her book I Now Pronounce You was published with Write Bloody Publishing in April 2024. She lives in Little Rock with her wife and two dogs.

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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 10/9/2024, we featured poet Emmy Piercy! We featured Emmy back in February 2019 before we were making a podcast. We’re so pleased to be able to bring this performance to you!

Emmy Piercy has been performing poetry within the Dallas literary community since 2016, where she has contributed to collaborative projects including White Rock Zine Machine and the Dallas Museum of Art’s Center for Creative Connection. Her work has appeared in Thimble and Impossible Archetype. She is a graduate student of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she studies the intersection of ecology and the written word.

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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 9/11/2024, we featured poet Jenny Molberg for a very special event co-sponsored by SMU Project Poëtica. We featured Jenny back in March 2020 before we were making a podcast. We’re so pleased to be able to bring this performance to you!

Originally from Dallas, Jenny Molberg is the author of three collections of poetry: Marvels of the Invisible (winner of the Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press, 2017), Refusal (LSU Press, 2020), and The Court of No Record (Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, LSU Press, 2023). Her poems and essays have recently appeared in Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, VIDA, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, Oprah Quarterly, and other publications. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, VCCA, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Longleaf Writers Conference. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she edits Pleiades: Literature in Context.

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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 8/14/2024, we featured poet R. Flowers Rivera!

R. Flowers Rivera is native of Mississippi; she completed a Ph.D. at Binghamton University and an M.A. at Hollins University. She is the author of award-winning poetry collections Troubling Accents (Xavier Review Press 2013) and Heathen (Wayne State University Press 2015). She is a Callaloo and Idyllwild fellow.

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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 7/10/2024, we featured poet and veterinarian Clara Bush Vadala!

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 6/12/2024, we featured poet Lindsay Illich. We featured Lindsay back in August 2021 during our podcast-only days, and we are super stoked to present her live performance at the Wild Detectives!

Lindsay Illich is the author of three poetry collections Earthwhere (forthcoming June 2024), Fingerspell (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Rile & Heave (Texas Review Press, 2017), and the poetry chapbook Heteroglossia (Anchor & Plume, 2016). Rile & Heave won the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize in Poetry. She also co-authored Teach Living Poets (National Council of Teachers of English, 2021). She directs the writing program at Curry College in Massachusetts.

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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 5/8/24, we featured poet Reverie Koniecki!

Reverie Koniecki is a Black writer and educator living in Dallas, Texas. She earned her MFA from New England College. Her work has appeared in Guernica, HeavyFeather Review, Post Road, Rigorous Magazine and other places. Her chapbooks —to the god of sore feet and bad backs from Finishing Line Press and The Wars That Steer Us from Mouthfeel Press were published in 2023.

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We are stoked to present this bonus episode of the Inner Moonlight podcast featuring our event for the Wild Detectives Tenth Anniversary celebration on 4/21/24. We collaborated with storytelling event Talking Dirty After Dark for a super fun show we called Dirty Moonlight. You'll hear superb poets previously featured on Inner Moonlight alongside storytellers selected by Talking Dirty curator Raymond Butler. This show also includes a poem by Inner Moonlight curator Logen Cure. Listeners be aware this episode includes colorful language and sensitive content. Happy anniversary to the Wild Detectives! Cheers to many more!

Performers in this episode:

1. Tarfia Faizullah (poet)

2. Klia Brown (storyteller)

3. Emma Ramsey (poet)

4. Cameron Barnes (storyteller)

5. Afeefah Khazi-Syed (poet)

6. Raymond Butler (storyteller, Talking Dirty curator)

7. Lisa Huffaker (poet)

8. Deante Toombs (storyteller)

9. Logen Cure (poet, Inner Moonlight curator)

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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 This very special episode contains Inner Moonlight's Sixth Anniversary celebration from 4/10/2024, featuring encore performances from writers featured in the past year plus some Inner Moonlight favorites. We are so stoked about this episode! Enjoy!

1. Lauren Kalstad – March 2024

2. Deborah Cawthon – IM favorite since October 2022

3. Maya Golden – December 2023

4. Kepler – IM favorite since October 2022

5. Jennifer Elise Wang – October 2023

6. Kevin O'Neill – IM favorite since January 2022

7. Christine Suggs – September 2023

8. Mag Gabbert – July 2023

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