Poet’s Corner Featuring Nina Adel

📅 Thursday, May 2025 | 7:00 PM
📍 Bennett Hall | Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN
🎟 Free Admission | All Are Welcome
🌟 Optional Open Mic Sign-Up Available

Join us for an evening of poetic storytelling and powerful reflection at Poet’s Corner, Scarritt Bennett Center’s beloved monthly reading series. This May, we are thrilled to welcome Nina Adel, an award-winning poet, musician, educator, and community advocate whose work uplifts immigrant voices and explores the intersection of art, identity, and resilience.

Nina [she/her] is the recipient of a 2023 Yaddo Artist Residency and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University and an MA in English from Belmont. Her work has been widely published in national journals and anthologies, and she is the winner of the Bellevue Literary Review’s Buckvar Prize. Nina is the author of the chapbook Sugar Crash (2024), with a follow-up volume set for release in Fall 2025.

As director of the Immigrants Write Workshop through The Porch literary arts center, she brings voice to underrepresented communities through writing. A Berklee-trained musician, English professor, and mother, Nina lives and creates in Nashville, Tennessee.

🌟 Open Mic Sign-Up Optional – Arrive early to add your name to the list
☕ Light Refreshments Provided
📌 Admission is free, and all are welcome – Whether you’re a longtime poetry lover or new to the art form, Poet’s Corner is a space to be inspired, reflect, and connect.
👉 Mark your calendar and join us for a night of poetry and conversation.

About Scarritt Bennett Center:
Scarritt Bennett Center is a nonprofit education, retreat, and conference center in Nashville, TN. Our mission is to create space where individuals and groups engage each other to achieve a more just world. Guided by our four core tenets—transformative education, spiritual enrichment, racial justice, and women’s empowerment—we offer a welcoming environment for dialogue, learning, and community growth.