In 2026, Duncanville joined communities across Texas and the nation in celebrating poetry and the literary arts by selecting the City’s first Poet Laureate.

In this episode of D’Ville Voices, we sit down with Logen Cure, Duncanville’s inaugural Poet Laureate, to learn more about the poet behind the title. Logen Cure is a poet and educator. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Welcome to Midland (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021). She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the founder and curator of Inner Moonlight, the monthly reading series and podcast at The Wild Detectives in Dallas. Learn more at www.logencure.com.

Get to know Duncanville’s first Poet Laureate and hear a conversation about poe ...