Inner Moonlight: Samantha Strong Murphey
Schedule
Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
314 W 8th St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75208 | Dallas, TX
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Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series at the Wild Detectives! Curated by poet Logen Cure, the show is the second Wednesday of every month. Meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday February 11th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. This month, we are proud to present poet Inner Moonlight poet Samantha Strong Murphey!Samantha Strong Murphey (she/her) has an MFA in Poetry from NYU and has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. She's taught creative writing at UT-Dallas, been a submission reader for Dallas-based literary magazine Sine Qua Non, and interned for her hometown global powerhouse publisher Deep Vellum Books. (Can you tell she loves Dallas?) Her work has been published by Rattle and the Crab Creek Review and is forthcoming the North American Review. She was a finalist for Ninth Letter's Regeneration Prize and Gulf Coast's Barthelme Prize. Before poetry, Sam worked as a journalist and has a rich and lengthy unwritten resume as a caregiver to her three human children, a dashing rescue cat, and a very earnest rescue dog. Sam grew up split between Cincinnati, Ohio and Fayetteville, Arkansas, but has, for the last decade, resided in Oak Cliff, the coolest neighborhood in ... you guessed it ... Dallas. She believes in sharp cheese, gun reform, and karaoke for all.
“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
—Allen Ginsberg, from On Being a Writer
www.innermoonlightpoetry.com
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