“In the aftermath of the closing of Davis-Kidd, Borders on West End and the other disappearing species of literary places and happenings that Nashville — along with most everywhere else in America — has endured over the last 15 years, it’s important to count one’s blessings. Along with the newly christened Salon at 615, the monthly Poet’s Corner at Scarritt-Bennett gives the city’s verse-hounds something to shout (or brood forlornly) about. This month’s poet is Lisa Dordal. A Vandy Divinity School grad, Dordal’s poems pull liberally from biblical images and stories. However, it’s Dordal’s short-sharp lines that find her best work catching our ear. Dordal marries her Judeo-Christian preoccupations to feminist themes and Southern atmospherics, rendering tense verses about the killing comfort of the familiar.”