Inner Moonlight – Tammy Melody Gomez

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series at The Wild Detectives! Curated by poet Logen Cure, the series brings together a featured writer and a brief open mic. This month, we are proud to present artist and writer Tammy Melody Gomez!Tammy Melody Gomez is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural curator whose literary work—essays, poetry, microfiction—has been published in numerous anthologies, including Bikequity: Money, Class, and Bicycling (Microcosm Publishing), Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (UT Press), and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf). Her film poem, “Trash: Chauvin”, was screened at both CineFestival (San Antonio) and the OC Film Fiesta (Santa Ana, California) in 2021. Profiled in Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History (UT Press), Tammy is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.Tammy presented installation art for the Inner Space exhibit at Kinfolk House in 2025 and for Texas Vignette in 2021. She was honored to open for Dolores Huerta with a poetry presentation at the “De Corazón a Corazón” event in Grand Prairie in October 2025.Tammy directs the all-Latina poetry ensemble, MUJERES SIN MIEDO (Women Without Fear), which debuted at Amphibian Stage for SparkFest in June 2026. She also curates and hosts SECOND SUNDAY SPOKEN WORD, a monthly literary performance series, at Arts Fifth Avenue in Fort Worth.Sustainability and social justice are deeply embedded in Tammy’s life and art practices.“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.” Don’t miss out and sign up to our newsletter

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Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series at The Wild Detectives! Curated by poet Logen Cure, the series brings together a featured writer and a brief open mic. This month, we are proud to present artist and writer Tammy Melody Gomez!Tammy Melody Gomez is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural curator whose literary work—essays, poetry, microfiction—has been published in numerous anthologies, including Bikequity: Money, Class, and Bicycling (Microcosm Publishing), Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (UT Press), and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf). Her film poem, “Trash: Chauvin”, was screened at both CineFestival (San Antonio) and the OC Film Fiesta (Santa