Inner Moonlight

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 novelist and poet, Rebecca Balcárcel.

Rebecca Balcárcel’s debut novel, THE OTHER HALF OF HAPPY is a Pura Belpré Honor Book and ALSC Notable Book that was named one of the Top Ten First Novels of 2019 by the American Library Association. Rebecca took her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. St. Mary’s University published her book of poems, Palabras in Each Fist in 2009. Find her on YouTube as the Sixminutescholar. She loves popcorn, her kitty, and teaching her students at Tarrant County College as Associate Professor of English.

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 multi-talented Katy Dycus!

A native Fort Worth, Texan, Katy now works in Madrid, Spain. She writes for the anthropology journal Mammoth Trumpet and is a Wild Detectives contributor.

Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for poetry and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to local poet Brittany Griffiths!

Brittany Griffiths is a writer/editor/publisher from Dallas, Texas. She is the founder of Spontaneous Afflatus, an independent publishing house that specializes in poetry and short story collections. Brittany is also the editor and co-founder of Wavelength Magazine, a Dallas-based cultural arts magazine that focuses on film, art, literature, and music in North Texas. She published her debut collection of poems titled, Ebb & Flow, through Spontaneous Afflatus in October 2017. She currently works at the University of Texas at Arlington as the Library Publishing Specialist. 

NOTE: This episode released in January 2021, but was recorded in 2020. When Brittany and Logen say "next year," they mean 2021!

Inner Moonlight is back! We are the monthly reading series for the Wild Detectives and we have returned as a podcast! I'm your host, Logen Cure, and I'm stoked to bring you one writer an episode for poetry and conversation. My first guest is longtime friend, Dani Quesenberry. 

Dani Quesenberry is a poet residing somewhere in the woods of rural Georgia. By day, she works for an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. By night, she writes poems exploring her childhood and struggles with queer identity in the rural South. She also names her plants and likes to report the location of cops on Waze.