The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada: Recent Episodes
Ken Hada
Ken Hada has published 10 volumes of poetry. You may find contact, & other information about his work at www.kenhada.org
Ken reads three poems of witness by WWII poet Ingeborg Bachmann, and follows the theme of determination despite the darkness with a new poem by Larry D Thomas, and a new poem of his own.
Ken reads a variety of poems from various authors published in the latest edition of San Pedro River Review - vol 15 no. 2 fall 2023, published by Blue Horse Press. JC and Tobi Alfier, editors & publishers.
Ken reads Darrell Bourque’s tribute poem to Sinead O’Connor, plus two new poems - one, a birthday tribute to His daughter in law, Megan
Ken reads poems by Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti, poems found in the pocket of Radnoti, after his body was exhumed from a mass grave. The poems are anthologized in “Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness” edited by Carolyn Forche (Norton, 1993).
In these new poems, Ken Hada draws upon a biographical aspect of several famous poets as possible points of identification and relationship for the audience
Ken reads from Angela Hooper’s debut collection, “Where the Sky is a Wall” (forthcoming, Village Books Press)
After a hiatus, “Ken Hada and the Sunday Poems” returns with a reading of Jean Burden’s poems from her 1963 book: “Naked As The Glass” (Clarke & Way, Inc., 1963)
Ken reads from Darrell Bourque’s book: “In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems” (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010).
Ken reads nine additional poems from Contemporary American Poetry, edited by R.S. Gwynn and April Lindner (Penguin, 2005)
from “Contemporary American Poetry” edited by RS Gwynn and April Lindner (Penguin, 2005)
Poems from: Elizabeth Raby, “Beneath Green Rain” (Vacpoetry: Purple Flag Press, 2015), Chera Hammons. “The Traveler’s Guide to Bomb City” (Vacpoetry: Purple Flag Press, 2017), Ofelia Zepeda, “Where Clouds Are Formed” (Arizona UP, 2008), Julie Chappell, “As I Pirouette Away” (Turning Plow Press, 2021), Maureen DuRant, “Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border” (Press 53, 2020), Maryann Hurtt, “Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices” (Turning Plow Press, 2021), Kai Coggin, “Mining for Stardust” (Flower Song Press, 2021), Roxana Cazan, “Tethered to the Unexpected: Poetry about Illness” (mail Alien Buddha Press, 2021)
Ken reads poems by Octavio Quintanilla, his first book: “If I Go Missing” (Slough Press, 2014)
Ken reads from one of Berry’s early collections. Berry is one of the foremost voices in environmentally-sensitive writing and place writing
Four poems from THE THIN LIGHT OF WINTER, by Jonas Zdanys: “The Dry Season,” “This Morning,” “Light” and “The Door” (Virtual Artists Collective, 2009)
Ken reads a few of Abbey’s poems, gathered by his editor/friend, published in his only volume of poetry - Earth Apples. Abbey thought of himself as a novelist, and produced wonderful prose, including his famous nonfiction, Desert Solitaire.
Ken reads four new poems: “Blue Jay at Dawn,” “Wildflowers at Dusk,” “Nocturne” and “The World on Hold” - thanks for listening
During this weekend celebrating Woody Guthrie, Ken reads from a kindred spirit - Edwin Markham, most famous for “The Man With The Hoe” - but also other overlooked poems.
Ken reads Jeffers’ timely poems: “The Beauty of Things,” “Animals,” “The World’s Wonders,” “Time of Disturbance,” “The Old Stone-Mason” and “To Death”
Readings from “When She Became You / Songs To Suzanne” by Michael Jennings (Black Spruce Press, 2022).
Ken reads two poems by Zhenya Yevtushenko and three from Chera Hammons’ 2020 book, “Maps of Injury”
Ken reads six of his newest poems, including: Darkness Comes to Me, Questing, Heartbreak, Radiation, Renewing and In the End
Ken reads three of Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska’s poems - her timely poetic impulse declares “Life goes on” and bears witness to the “incorrigible readiness to start afresh tomorrow”
Ken reads poems by Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue and two of his own.
Two poems from Not Quite Pilgrims, plus three new poems, and two from The Way of the Wind - water, fishing and our human journey
Ken reads George Bilgere’s “Because I could not Stop for Death” from Central Air (Pittsburgh UP, 2022) and Philip Heldrich: three poems from Good Friday (Texas Review Press, 2000 - winner of the Kennedy Poetry Prize. And 3 new poems by Ken Hada
Ken reads several poems from Brady Peterson’s latest book: At the Edge of Town. Plus a new poem by Ken Hada
Ken reads several poems from Paul Bowers’ new book: Ten Acres of the Universe (Turning Plow Press).
Ken reads “Spring and All” plus two more from William Carlos Williams, and one from James Wright.
Ken reads 7 poems from his 2017 collection, BRING AN EXTRY MULE (Vacpoetry 2017). Some river poems and a couple other speingtime poems.
Ken reads several poems from LeAnne Howe’s 2005 collection Evidence of Red, then ends with one of his poems inspired by LeAnne’s novel Miko Kings.
Ken reads from Roxana Cazan’s latest book: Tethered to the Unexpected: poems about illness
Ken reads another batch of new work, echoing the winter weather and the geopolitical chaos felt this week.
Ken reads 6 new poems: Poem in the Afternoon, Morning Prayer, A Thawing, Snow Melt, Hope and The Light of Day
Eleven poems (from eleven poets) from the Oklahoma anthology Bull Buffalo & Indian Paintbrush, edited by Ron Wallace
In this episode, Ken reads poems by Rilke, Roethke, Hayden, Berecka, Thomas, Juhasz and three of his own from his 2010 book, “Spare Parts”
Considering Keats’ joining of beauty and truth, Ken reads poems by Robert Bridges, Emily Dickinson, Rupert Brooke, and one of his own poems.
Recorded New Year’s Eve, Ken reads a few pertinent sections from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam A. H. H.”
Ken reads”Returning Snow” from Persimmon Sunday and some holiday poems from Sunlight & Cedar. Peace
Ken reads several poems from the 2013 anthology: “Poetry to the People” edited by Abby Wendle and Scott Gregory (This Land Press)
Ken reads several new poems from his latest book, Contour Feathers (Turning Plow Press, 2021).
Selections from the 2010 anthology: “Aint Nobody that can Sing like Me”: New Oklahoma Writing (Mongrel Empire Press).
Ken reads several poems from Williams’ Selected Poems, edited by Charles Tomlinson (New Directions).
Ken Hada reads three George Bilgere poems from “The White Museum” and three from “Blood Pages”
Ken Hada reads poems from new books by Alan Berecka and Cullen Whisenhunt and from his own new work: Contour Feathers.
Ken reads three poems from his new book, Contour Feathers (Turning Plow Press, 2021), plus a new, unpublished poem.
Three poems from N. Scott Momaday’s “Gourd Dancer” and three from Li-Young Lee’s “Blossoms”
In this episode, a Rumi poem, and two poems of Parker J. Palmer (from On the Brink of Everything), and two Scott Cairns’ poems (from Compass of Affection).
This episode includes poems set in the Gulf of Mexico. Poems taken from Margaritas & Redfish (Lamar UP, 2013)
This episode is a reading of Whitman’s poem “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life” in which the poet reflects on his own worth ad a poet, and leads us to consider the efficacy of art.
Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices by Maryann Hurtt (Turning Plow Press, 2021). Wisconsin poet, Maryann Hurtt, provides historical insight, empathy and conviction in this poetic, historically documented, and personally witnessed accounting of one of the terrible ecological disasters of Oklahoma, and America.
This episode includes poems from Robert Hass’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning book: Time and Materials.
Includes a poem by Dylan Thomas, two elegies by William Virgil Davis, one by Natasha Trethewey and one by Ken Hada.
Includes poems of remembrance by Quraysh Ali Lansana, Natasha Trethewey & Tracy K Smith as well as Ken Hada’s “When Friends Gather”
This episode features four poems Russian great Anna Akhmatova and three new poems by Ken Hada
Stephen Crane poems from “War is Kind” and from “The Black Riders” and an uncollected poem, “A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar”
This episode features James Dickey’s “In the Tree House at Night” along with a Silverstein poem on tree houses and Ken Hada’s “Growing Pain”
This episode features four poems from childhood memories, from SPARE PARTS, by Ken Hada (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010)
This episode features poems from “Warbles” by Salinas and “Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border” by DuRant
This episode features four poems from Hank Jones’ debut collection: Too Late for Manly Hands (Turning Plow Press)
This episode features the poetry of New Mexico poet Kyce Bello from her award-winning book Refugia.
This episode features several poems about neighbors. The unusual cold, ice and snow, may remind us of who we really are, and what we really need.
This episode features several winter poems by Ken Hada, from Persimmon Sunday, Bring an Extry Mule & Margaritas & Redfish. Thanks for listening and for sharing. Be safe
The title comes from Whitman, Song of Myself (section 32). This program features several of Ken Hada’s poems where animals are the central focus, and thus foiling and/or informing human experience
This episode features three Ken Hada poems: “I Would Like to Say” (Bring an Extry Mule, 2017) and “Fishing Dock” (from The Way of the Wind, 2008 & 2019 Fine Dog Press) plus a new poem: “Dimensions”
This episode features 3 poems by Arthur Sze, from his forthcoming collection: The Glass Constellation (Copper Canyon Press), plus two new poems by Ken Hada
Today’s program offers several new poems by Ken Hada, addressing the sense of betrayal so keenly felt regarding our democracy and common good. The program concludes with the poem “It Will Hold”
In the wake of domestic terrorism at the nation’s capitol, this episode features the poem “What We Have Lost” from Ken Hada’s Way of the Wind, and the poem “Cloudy with a Chance of Miracles” by Robert Dean, from his new book The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing”
Features Robert Dean’s poem “Aftermath” by Robert Dean, from The Aerialist Will Not Be Performing, Turning Plow Press), and two new, end of the year poems: “Forward Looking” and “Asymptomatic” and “New Year’s Eve” (from Spare Parts, Mongrel Empire Press) -
Includes Neruda, “The Seeker” and Jane Kenyon’s “Evening Sun” and two by Ken Hada: “The Bridge” & “Looking Up”
3 poems from the Texas Gulf Coast anthology, Odes & Elegies, and 3 from Ken Hada’s collection, Margaritas & Redfish.
Eco-Poetry from the Gulf Coast, poems from a new anthology edited by Katherine Hoerth, Lamar UP. Includes Poems by Loretta Diane Walker, Milton Jordan, Tom Murphy, Carol Coffee Reposa, Chris Ellery, Steve Wilson, Larry D. Thomas, Kathryn Jones, Oscar C. Pena & Ken Hada
Ken reads five of his poems from various settings, occurring in rain: Conspiracy of Rain; Chicago Rain, Texas Rain, Light Rain: Kyoto & Winter Rain
This episode contains a reading of Bates’ famous hymn, some commentary on the ideal and the real, hope based in awareness, as quoted from Manlio Argueta
Two new poems by ken Hada, borrowing a phrase from Paul Austin, and referring to the transactional theory of literature.
This episode contains Charles Simic’s famous (and prescient) quote, plus 3 of his poems and one from yours truly. Enjoy.
Includes a poem by Louise Gluck (Coincidentally, this episode was recorded the night before the Nobel Prize was announced). The program also includes poems by Carter Revard, Wendell Berry and Ken Hada.
Includes Julie Chappell’s poem “Forgive Our Trespasses” responding to Alan Berecka’s poem “Our Trespasses” responding to Ken Hada’s poem “Persimmon Sunday”
Includes poems by Octavio Quintanilla, Les Palmer, Dunbar, Yevtushenko and Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
Includes the poem “Ellison visits greenwood, 1921” by Quraysh Ali Lansana, and poems from Nathan Brown’s book “In the Days of Our Seclusion” and two by Ken Hada from “Sunlight & Cedar” (kenhada.org)
Includes poems by W. B. Yeats, Lucille Clifton, Kim Addonizio, Melissa Studdard and two by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
“A Branch Bent Beyond Breaking” from Gary Worth Moody’s book, Occoquan, his poetic and historical tribute to women’s rights in America.
This episode includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Yehuda Amichai, Shu Ting and two new poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
The program includes two poems from Jessica Isaacs’ book Deep August, a Dorothy Parker poem, “August” and three poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
Four poems from Maryann Hurtt’s 2016 chapbook, “River”. See Ken Hada’s work at kenhada.org
This episode includes several poems from Steven Schroeder’s new E-chapbook and 3 poems from Ken’s new book, Sunlight & Cedar
What is the value of art in a time of hateful populism? Features two Stafford poems, a passage from Jim Barnes and a tribute poem to Jason Murray
Poems include “Pebbles” “Redbirds Balancing on Cedar Limbs” (from PERSIMMON SUNDAY) and a Rilke and Larkin poem.
A poem gifted to my family by Larry D Thomas during the week of the birth of grandbaby Atticus Hada
features a few poems recently published in the Spring 2020 issue (vol 12) of The San Pedro River Review
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel’s poetry is an overlooked voice from the Dust Bowl era. This episode includes “Pies” & “Gravy Says a Lot” & “Buried Treasure”
Includes poems by John Yozzo, Sally Rhoades, Ben Myers and two from my book Spare Parts.
Features “Echoes” along with “Heartland” by Jim Barnes” and Kooser’s “Abandoned Farmhouse”
Includes a Larry Thomas poem, “The Light of Mexico” and 3 of my poems featuring the motif of light
Features 3 poems by Paul Austin from his book Notes on Hard Times (Village Books Press), - see kenhada.org
An excerpt of Dylan Thomas’ Poem in October plus Ken Hada’s poems: Pastels, A Night Like This, Fallen, Sundown on the Blue River & Conflicted
Features “To Rise to the Sky” & “For the Daylight Moon” & “Horses” & “Pastoral” & “The Old Women of the Shore” & “Still Poise”
“By Any Other Name” & “Bigotry”& “Wait! You Thought I Was Talking about Venezuela? & “Eulogy for El Paso”
Poems from the 2019 anthology, Speak Your Mind: poems of protest & resistance (Woodyfest 2019)
Ekphrastic poems responding to plein aire watercolor paintings of Duane Hada, created on the White River in north Arkansas. (See kenhada.org)