Inner Moonlight
By Logen Cure
Inner MoonlightJan 13, 2021
Inner Moonlight: Lauren Kalstad
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.
Inner Moonlight: Emma Ramsey
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.
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/
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/
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 12 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. Alan Gann – March 2022
6. Kim Nall – April 2022
7. Chris George – May 2022
8. Ayesha Asad – June 2022
9. Alex Temblador – August 2022
10. James Davis – October 2022
11. Laura Neal – January 2023
12. Lauren Brazeal Garza – March 2023
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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.
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Inner Moonlight: Lauren Brazeal Garza
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 3/8/23, we featured poet Lauren Brazeal Garza.
Lauren Brazeal Garza is a disabled writer and Ph.D. candidate in literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her published poetry collections include Gutter (YesYes Books, 2018), which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. She has also published three chapbooks, including Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I was Here Release Me (Tram Editions, 2023), which is a series of fictional interviews with ghosts and is inspired by her experiences as a translator and collector of oral histories. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and Verse Daily among many other journals. She can be found haunting her website at www.lbrazealgarza.com
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Inner Moonlight: Jenny Bhatt
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 2/8/23, we featured the multi-talented Jenny Bhatt.
Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and the founder of Desi Books, a global forum that showcases South Asian literature from the world over. She teaches creative writing at Writing Workshops Dallas and the PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship Program. She resides in the Dallas, Texas area. Find her at https://jennybhattwriter.com.
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Inner Moonlight: Laura Neal
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 1/11/23, we featured poet Laura Neal.
Laura Neal is a poet, greatly influenced by social and environmental narratives. She earned an MFA from the University of Maryland College Park and a BA from Bowie State University. Her work is published in Academy of American Poets and Birmingham Poetry Review, among others. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, CALLALOO, and the Juanita Craft Artist-in-Residence Program. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and finalist for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at Dallas and is a contributing writer for Southwest Contemporary magazine and BURNAWAY magazine. She is also co-member of the artist collaborative, CALCIUM.
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Inner Moonlight: Tarfia Faizullah
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 12/14/22, we featured poet Tarfia Fauzullah.
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Seam (SIU 2014) and Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf 2018). Her poems have appeared widely both here and abroad, and have been translated into several languages. In 2016, Tarfia was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change.
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Inner Moonlight: Melissa Ginsburg
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 11/9/22, we featured poet Melissa Ginsburg.
Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collections Doll Apollo and Dear Weather Ghost, the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Image, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has been recognized by the Mississippi Arts Commission and the Texas Writers' League. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Mississippi, and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
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Inner Moonlight: James Davis
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 10/12/22, we featured poet James Davis.
James Davis is the author of Club Q, which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and published by The Waywiser Press in Fall 2020. He is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Florida, as well as support from the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver, Colorado, and The Mastheads in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in two editions of Best New Poets (2011 & 2019), as well as in journals such as Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and American Literary Review. He lives in Denton, Texas, where he acts as Poetry Editor of American Literary Review while pursuing his PhD in creative writing at the University of North Texas.
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Inner Moonlight: Bruce Bond
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 9/14/22, we featured poet Bruce Bond.
Bruce Bond is the author of thirty books including, most recently, Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave, 2019), Words Written Against the Walls of the City (LSU, 2019), Scar (Etruscan, 2020), Behemoth (New Criterion Prize, Criterion Books, 2021), The Calling (Parlor, 2021), Patmos (Juniper Prize, UMass, 2021) and Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Press, 2022). His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including seven editions of Best American Poetry. Presently he teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas and performs classical and jazz guitar in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Inner Moonlight: Alex Temblador
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 8/10/22, we featured novelist Alex Temblador!
Alex Temblador is the award-winning author of Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. In addition to her work appearing in literary magazines like PALABRITAS, she is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Based in Dallas, Texas, Alex is the founder and host of LitTalk at Interabang Books, a tri-yearly author panel series, and an award-winning travel, arts, and culture writer with publications in Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Architectural Digest, Texas Monthly and more. Learn more about Alex via her website (AlexTemblador.com) or social media (@Alex_Temblador).
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Inner Moonlight: Candy
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 7/13/22, we featured legendary poet Sherrie Zantea, also known as Candy!
Sherrie Zantea (Candy) has been writing and performing poetry for over 28 years. Candy made the 2007 Dallas Poetry Slam Team, and to date has been on 15 poetry slam teams, the first woman to coach 10 and she is the current CEO of the Dallas Poetry Slam Organization. Candy is one of the Lead Instructors for the Literary Arts in the DFW School Districts, Program Director for The Writer’s Garret, Learning Partner for Big Thought, and the owner/founder of Poetchella International Literary Festival. Candy is the author of a poetry/recipe book Heirlooms, a spiritual chap book, Sherrie’s Sanctuary, and Oak Cliff-Hangers, Stories from a Snowglobe.
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Inner Moonlight: Ayesha Asad
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 6/8/22, we featured poet Ayesha Asad!
Ayesha Asad is from Dallas, Texas. Her work has been included in the 2020 Best of the Net Anthology, and her writing appears or is forthcoming in PANK, diode poetry journal, DIAGRAM, Sundog Lit, Cosmonauts Avenue, Zone 3, The Boiler, and elsewhere. Her writing was longlisted for the 2022 Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize and has been recognized by Best of the Net, Creative Writing Ink Journal, and the Robert Bone Memorial Creative Writing Prize. Currently, she is an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Dallas. In her free time, she likes to dream.
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Inner Moonlight: Chris George
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
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Inner Moonlight: Kim Nall
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).
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Inner Moonlight: Emily Ramser
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.
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Inner Moonlight: Matthew W. Baker
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: Shug Avery
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: Vic Victory
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: Logen Cure
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: Loretta Diane Walker
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: Lindsay Illich
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: Lauren Berry
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: Paige Quiñones
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: Joe Milazzo
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: Robin Myrick
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.
Inner Moonlight: Rebecca Balcárcel
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: Katy Dycus
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: Brittany Griffiths
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: Dani Quesenberry
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.