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The Art Of Podcast Featuring Poet’s Corner with Dana Malone, Klyd Watkins, and Robyn Leigh Lear

In this episode we have the pleasure of hearing performances from local poets from a live video recorded performance and conversation on campus at Scarritt Bennett Center.

In addition to opening the doors for you to hear from three amazing poets of the Poet’s Corner writing community, we’ll also get a peak in the publishing world to help inspire all of us who might just need a nudge and insight into how to go from private journal to the published page. 

Featured Poetry from: Dana Malone, a Nashville-based poet and teaching artist, is known for her lyrical reflections on home, history, and healing. She has written a chapbook Mother. Grave. Ghost. and has a forthcoming collection of poems Everyone Begotten, Everything Holy. Both explore Appalachian roots, personal resilience, and the sacred in everyday life. Dana’s work has appeared on stages, podcasts, buses, and even in international festivals. 

Klyd Watkins, longtime Tennessean and lifelong poet, has been a force in Southern poetry since the 1960s. From open mics in Nashville to experimental audio recordings and poetic LPs, his voice remains vital and visionary. His most recent collection, The Wolf Can Smell This is My Acre, offers fresh reflections inspired by the land surrounding his home near the Harpeth River. [NOTE: Klyd was unable to come and perform, so his publisher presented his work for him.] 

Robyn Leigh Lear (she/they) is a poet, professor, and creative director based in Nashville. Their upcoming debut collection, Ekphrasis as Divination, explores language, art, and ritual through poetic interpretations of divinatory cards. Robyn’s current work, Yonderling, continues this exploration of identity and landscape with what they call “the violent pastoral.”

Click here to access this live-recorded event which took place on Thursday, April 24, 2025.

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