Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series for the Wild Detectives! Our show is the second Wednesday of every month. Meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday January 8th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. This month, we are proud to present poet Hannah Smith!

Hannah Smith is a writer from Dallas, Texas. Her poetry appears in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. Hannah’s full-length manuscript Common Prairie was a National Poetry Series Finalist, and she is the co-author of two collaborative chapbooks, Metal House of Cards (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and Astral Gaze (dancing girl press, 2025). Hannah works as the Production Manager for Southwest Review & New Pony.

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
—Allen Ginsberg, from On Being a Writer

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