Introducing Inner Moonlight, our monthly poetry reading series! The first Wednesday of every month we’ll host 2 poets and we’ll wrap up with 15-minute open mic. All this wouldn’t be possible without the invaluable help of local poet Logen Cure, who’ll be curating this soirees. For that we’re immensely grateful.
And we couldn’t be more excited about our first line up: local poets Gayle Reaves-King and Dan Collins.
Gayle Reaves-King is a journalist and a poet. She has worked at major daily papers like The Dallas Morning News and small ones like Fort Worth Weekly, which she edited for 14 years. Her journalism awards include a share in the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting, for a Morning News series on violence against women. She’s currently an adjunct professor of journalism at UNT and freelances for regional and national magazines. Her chapbook Spectral Analysis was a runner-up in the Dallas Poets Community contest and her work was featured last year in the Art&Words show in Fort Worth. She’s part of the brain trust at Pandora’s Box Poetry Showcase and for the last three years has edited the Best American Newspaper Narratives anthologies, published by UNT Press.
Dan Collins is a visual artist and poet. He misspent the better part of his youth in Corsicana, Texas, just south of Dallas. He graduated from the University of North Texas, studied at School of the Visual Arts, NYC, then drifted far and wee. He finally settled back in Dallas in 1997, where he lives near White Rock Lake. He is proud to be an active member of Dallas’ vibrant creative community. His poetry has appeared in the Blue Mesa Review, Naugatuck River Review, and the online journal [out of nothing].
So now you know what to do on the first Wednesday of each month. We’ll be waiting for you.
“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
—Allen Gingsberg, from On Being a Writer.
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