Inner Moonlight

By Logen Cure

Inner Moonlight is a monthly poetry podcast curated by Logen Cure at the Wild Detectives in Dallas! The live show takes place the second Wednesday of every month; the podcast episode drops before the ... more

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January 28, 2024 Inner Moonlight: Lisa Huffaker
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 1/10/24, we featured poet and artist Lisa Huffaker!

Lisa Huffaker integrates poetry, collage, book arts, and assemblage in many hybrid forms, from sculptural vending machines to a book of visual poetry created from a misogynist “self improvement” manual. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Cincinnati Review, Diagram, Sixth Finch, Thrush, 32 Poems, and many other journals. Her visual poetry manuscript in progress was exhibited internationally as part of TU Delft and Cornell Tech’s 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation. She is Teaching Artist in Residence for the Writer’s Garret, and a fine arts instructor at Oil and Cotton Creative Exchange. Find her online at lisahuffaker.com.

Note: Huffaker reads some of her visual poems during this episode. To see examples of her visual poems, visit her portfolio on her website!

Presented by The Writer's Garret ⁠⁠https://writersgarret.org/⁠⁠
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58min
December 29, 2023 Inner Moonlight: Maya Golden
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 12/13/23, we featured journalist and memoirist Maya Golden!
Maya Golden is an Associated Press winning and Emmy-nominated freelance journalist from Garland, Texas. Maya currently lives in Tyler where her foundation, 1 in 3 Foundation, serves survivors of sexual trauma living in East Texas. Her memoir, The Return Trip, released November 2023 from Rising Action Publishing Co. Her first novel, a political thriller, The Senator, will release in April 2025 also through RAPC. Maya has written for Newsweek, Salon, Insider and Black Girl Nerds.com.
Presented by The Writer's Garret ⁠https://writersgarret.org/⁠
⁠www.logencure.com/innermoonlight

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58min
November 30, 2023 Inner Moonlight: Courtney LeBlanc
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 11/8/23, we featured poet Courtney LeBlanc!
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Whole Bright Life; Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellow, and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com.

Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/
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27min
October 26, 2023 Inner Moonlight: Jennifer Elise Wang
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 10/11/23, we featured poet Jennifer Elise Wang!
Jennifer Elise Wang is a nonbinary femme in STEM living Dallas, Texas. She is a lab tech at UT Southwestern and a three-time winner in the Open Poetry division of the On My Own Time arts competition. Her work has been published in Exist Otherwise, FERAL, just femme and dandy, Ofic, and redrosethorns magazine. She is an occasional writer for the Japanese pop culture site J-Generation and enjoys drag, learning how to pole dance and snowboard, and volunteering at the animal shelter. Learn more at www.jenniferelisewang.com.

Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/
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24min
September 27, 2023 Inner Moonlight: Christine Suggs
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 9/13/23, we featured graphic novelist Christine Suggs!
Christine Suggs is a comic artist and designer living in Dallas, TX with their wonderful partner, dog, and cat. Their debut book, ¡AY MIJA! is a YA graphic novel about spending their summers in Mexico as a teen and was released in spring 2023 from Little Brown Young Readers. Christine’s work explores the intersection of their identities, namely being a queer, fat, Latinx feminist who loves all things cute. Bonus facts: their day job is in app design, they are an avid Dungeons & Dragons player, and they’re quite obsessed with cats.

Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/
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37min
August 30, 2023 Inner Moonlight: Afeefah Khazi-Syed
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 8/9/23, we featured poet Afeefah Khazi-Syed.
Afeefah Khazi-Syed was born and raised in the DFW metroplex but has always called two places home: the suburbs of Texas and her grandparents’ homes in Southern India. Medical student at UT Southwestern by day, and writer by night – she published her first poetry collection Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air in 2022. Written with her college friends, this anthology is a celebration of homeland, family and identity. Afeefah attributes her love for writing and storytelling to her grandparents’ bedtime stories and the many writing mentors she has found throughout her life, from high school English teachers to other writers of color. When she’s not studying or writing, Afeefah is out exploring all the great eateries and coffee shops Dallas has to offer.
Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/
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24min
July 26, 2023 Inner Moonlight: Mag Gabbert
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 7/12/23, we featured poet Mag Gabbert.
Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS (Mad Creek Books, 2023), which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup, which was selected by Kaveh Akbar as the winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award; and the chapbook Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books, 2020). She’s the recipient of a 2021 Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center as well as fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, and Poetry at Round Top. Her work can be found in The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review Daily, Copper Nickel, Guernica, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Mag has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech. She lives in Dallas, Texas and teaches at Southern Methodist University.
Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/
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49min
June 28, 2023 Inner Moonlight: Melania Luisa Marte
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 6/14/23, we featured legendary poet Melania Luisa Marte.
Melania Luisa Marte is an American writer, poet, and musician from New York living between the Dominican Republic and Texas. Marte's debut collection of poetry, PLANTAINS AND OUR BECOMING will be published by Tiny Reparations, an imprint of Plume and Penguin Random House Summer 2023. You can follow her journey on social media: @MelaTocaTierra.
Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/
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48min
May 25, 2023 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 11 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. Kim Nall – April 2022
6. Chris George – May 2022
7. Ayesha Asad – June 2022
8. Alex Temblador – August 2022
9. James Davis – October 2022
10. Laura Neal – January 2023
11. Lauren Brazeal Garza – March 2023

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

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1h 8min
April 26, 2023 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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38min

FAQs about Inner Moonlight:

How many episodes does Inner Moonlight have?

The podcast currently has 58 episodes available.