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 November 13th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. This month, we are proud to present poet Caroline Earleywine!

Caroline Earleywine is a poet and educator who spent ten years teaching high school English in Central Arkansas. She’s a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, was a 2021 finalist for Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and has work in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Barrelhouse, NAILED Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Queens University in Charlotte and her chapbook, Lesbian Fashion Struggles, was published with Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020. She was a winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, and her book I Now Pronounce You was published with Write Bloody Publishing in April 2024. She lives in Little Rock with her wife and two dogs.

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