Inner Moonlight

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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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 3/13/24, we featured poet Lauren Kalstad!

Lauren Kalstad is a poet, children’s book author, and Lecturer at the University of North Texas. She received her BA in Creative Writing from UNT with a minor in French, and went on to receive her MFA from New York University. Her works have appeared in publications including The Belleville Park Pages, The Alarmist, The Coe Review, and others. In 2020, she published her first children’s book To the Stars in Bumper Cars. Her love of food led to a freelance career in culinary journalism with articles published in EATER and Edible. She lives in the Bishop Arts area with her husband, daughter, and mini Aussiedoodle, Alfie. She’s currently working on her debut collection of poetry.

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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 2/14/24, we featured poet Emma Ramsey for a very special Valentine's Day show!

Emma Pearl Ramsey grew up on a small farm in the Piney Woods of East Texas. She earned her BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, and her MFA from North Carolina State University, and currently teaches in the English Department at TCU. Emma left her country life behind, but its influence continues to surface in her work and life. Through images of gardens, flowers, and the natural world, Emma’s poems explore themes of family, loss, and coming-of age. Emma’s work has appeared in Blue Route, she was a finalist in the NCSU Annual Poetry Contest, and she was nominated for a Best New Poets award. She is at work on her first full length collection.

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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 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!

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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 11/8/23, 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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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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