Dana Malone

Dana Malone began writing creatively at age 13 in response to a photograph, and her career includes leading ekphrastic writing workshops and classes. A former publications editor and speechwriter, she now coaches other writers and is publishing poetry and non-fiction. She hosts Writings on the Wall, a monthly poetry experience in Nashville. Dana also has studied piano and voice and performed in musical theater, opera, and at art/music festivals. Art Wire is her new learning lab.
Dana Malone
Kinetics: Identity & Female Lead

This is a dance of madness twin-souled to distant answer Squirm and isolation failing to attract a partner Hair-knocking crackle and haze. Electric sweat and suspense—A man caught in half- fall the whistle of his   sanity warped. All the atonal chords inside him static on the axis. Limbs gyrating in defiance. As a bass […]

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Frankenstein: Narration / Interpretation / Transmission

Lines composed after watching Manual Cinema's production of Frankenstein I wrote then— but in a most common- place style. It was beneath  the trees of the grounds  belonging to our house, or on the bleak sides  of the woodless  mountains near,  that my true compositions, the airy flights  of my imagination,  were born and fostered.  […]

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The Champion
Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Danca
Afterparty Sadness

Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Dança

when the day comes

Inspired by The Day, with Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan

Ghosts: A Holiday Haunting

Inspired by The Longest Night

Names Unheard

Inspired by Mellotron Variations

Here, Not There

Inspired by Stew and Heidi: Notes of a Native Song

Kinetics: Identity & Female Lead

Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Dança

I AM THE UNIVERSE

Inspired by Hiroaki Umeda

Smashed Glass

Inspired by Stew and Heidi: Notes of a Native Song

The Explorer

Inspired by Rosie Herrera's First Fruit, New Dialect

Went Home to Meet White Supremacy

Inspired by Mellotron Variations

The Guide

In response to Split Flow and Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

my beloved monster

Inspired by Manual Cinema's Frankenstein

il est midi

In response to Na Pista & ID: ENTIDADES by Companhia Urbana de Dança

Rebooting

In response to Split Flow & Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

Fish Out of Water

In response to The Moth

Frankenstein: Narration / Interpretation / Transmission

In response to Frankenstein by Manual Cinema

Rise & Darkness Becomes Me

In response to The Longest Night

Behn's Flow

In response to Split Flow & Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

Dynamite Kid

In response to Na PistaID: ENTIDADES by Companhia Urbana de Dança