Inner Moonlight

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.  

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 Lauren Berry.

Lauren Berry received a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University and an MFA from the University of Houston where she won the Inprint Verlaine Prize and served as poetry editor for Gulf Coast. From 2009 to 2010, she held the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Agni, Silk Road, The Adroit Journal, Denver Quarterly, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Terrance Hayes selected her first collection, The Lifting Dress (Penguin, 2011), to win the National Poetry Series prize. Her second collection, The Rented Altar, won the C&R Press Award in poetry (C&R Press, 2020) and the 2021 gold medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. She teaches AP English Literature at YES Prep Public Schools, a charter school that provides college preparatory education to Houston’s most underserved communities. Additionally, Lauren leads poetry workshops for local non-profits, Inprint and Grackle and Grackle. Connect with her at poetlaurenberry.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 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.

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 incomparable Dallas poet Joe Milazzo!

Joe Milazzo is the author of the novel Crepuscule W/ Nellie, two volumes of poetry — The Habiliments and Of All Places In This Place Of All Places — and several chapbooks, including the forthcoming homeopathy for the singularity. His writings have appeared in Black Clock, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Prelude, Tammy, Texas Review and elsewhere. He is an Associate Editor for Southwest Review and the Founder/Editor-In-Chief of Surveyor Books. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, and his virtual location is http://www.joe-milazzo.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 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.