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 

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 4/20/22, we featured poet Kim Nall!

Kim Nall is a poet and educator from Dallas, Texas. She holds a BA in Communication Studies from the University of North Texas and is an MFA candidate at Carlow University, where she co-curates and co-emcees the Raising Our Voices Alumni Reading Series. Her work has appeared in Poetry Quarterly, Red Wheelbarrow, and at the Dallas Museum of Art. She was recently named a finalist for the Fingal Poetry Prize (2020) and a semifinalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize (2021).

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

www.logencure.com/innermoonlight 

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 3/9/22, we featured poet Alan Gann!

Alan Gann facilitates after-school programming and writing workshops for under-served youth at Texans Can Academies. Multiple Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominee, Alan is the author of 2 volumes of poetry, That’s Entertainment and Adventures of the Clumsy Juggler. He also wrote DaVerse Works, Big Thought’s performance poetry curriculum. His forthcoming chapbook from Assure Press, Better Ways to See, combines two of his passions with ekphrastic and bird watching poems. His nonexistent spare time is spent enjoying the outdoors and trying to photograph some of the cool things he sees there.

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

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 2/9/22 we hosted stellar poet Emily Ramser.

Emily Ramser is a queer activist-teacher-scholar-poet living in Denton, Texas where they write, collaborate, and perform with the creative collective Spiderweb Salon and study  blackout poetry. Check out their history of blackout poetry at https://www.thehistoryofblackoutpoetry.org/ and follow them on Twitter @RamsersRhetoric.

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

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.

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.

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas. 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! We are stoked to present the first live show episode, featuring Dallas legend Vic Victory. The live show was 11/10/21.

Vic Victory is a writer, painter, graphic designer, serial roadtripper and poet from Texas. She's an introvert with severe social anxiety who regularly demonstrates a somewhat masochistic urge to draw attention and make a spectacle of herself. She makes art, poems, stories, questionable choices, and a variety of interesting mistakes. Learn more at https://abstractvictory.com/ and https://dvictory.com/.

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, guest host, Katy Dycus, interviews your regular host, Logen Cure, about her debut poetry collection, Welcome to Midland. 

Logen Cure is a queer poet and professor. She's an editor for Voicemail Poems. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Welcome to Midland, released from Deep Vellum Publishing in 2021. She lives in Texas. Learn more at www.logencure.com.

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.

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.