The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada

Episode 161: selections from “Aint Nobody that Can Sing Like Me” 27.11.2021 15:24 ↓

Selections from the 2010 anthology: “Aint Nobody that can Sing like Me”: New Oklahoma Writing (Mongrel Empire Press).

Episode 160: Ronin: Prose poems of Paul Juhasz 21.11.2021 11:02 ↓

Ken reads from Paul Juhasz’s new book, “Romin” (Fine Dog Press, 2021).

Episode 159: William Carlos Williams 14.11.2021 6:09 ↓

Ken reads several poems from Williams’ Selected Poems, edited by Charles Tomlinson (New Directions).

Episode 158: George Bilgere’s poetry 07.11.2021 9:26 ↓

Ken Hada reads three George Bilgere poems from “The White Museum” and three from “Blood Pages”

Episode 157: “Wild Swans at Coole” by W B Yeats, and “Another Poem in October” by Ken Hada 31.10.2021 4:50 ↓

“Another Poem in October” by Ken Hada and “The Wild Swans at Coole” by Yeats

Episode 156: When Happiness Comes 24.10.2021 9:56 ↓

Readings from Pablo Neruda’s World’s End and a poem for Jennifer & Michael

Episode 155: Berecka, Whisenhunt and new poems from Contour Feathers 17.10.2021 9:00 ↓

Ken Hada reads poems from new books by Alan Berecka and Cullen Whisenhunt and from his own new work: Contour Feathers.

Episode 154: poems from Julie Chappell’s new book: As I Pirouette Away 10.10.2021 12:26 ↓

Poems from Julie Chappell’s new book: As I Pirouette Away (Turning Plow Press, 2021).

Episode 153: Contour Feathers 03.10.2021 6:40 ↓

Ken reads three poems from his new book, Contour Feathers (Turning Plow Press, 2021), plus a new, unpublished poem.

Episode 152: Poems from I-70 Review 26.09.2021 11:03 ↓

Poems from several authors in the Summer/Fall 2921 issue of I-70 Review

Episode 151: new poems and new books from Cullen Whisenhunt, Alan Berecka and Ken Hada 18.09.2021 10:31 ↓

Reading from “Among the Trees” & “A Living is Not a Life” & “Contour Feathers”

Episode 150: Haesong Kwon 12.09.2021 10:07 ↓

Poems from Haesong Kwon’s book, The People’s Field, and a new poem by Ken Hada

Episode 149: Poems at Dawn 05.09.2021 4:14 ↓

Ken reads two of his dawn poems: “Ceremony” and “Geese at Dawn” from Sunlight & Cedar

Episode 148: Emily Bronte 29.08.2021 6:52 ↓

Two poems by the author of Wuthering Heights

Episode 147: “Morning Poems” Robert Bly 22.08.2021 6:25 ↓

Ken reads from Robert Bly’s “Morning Poems”

Episode 146: Tracy K Smith poems from Wade in the Water 15.08.2021 6:34 ↓

Ken Hada reads from Tracy K Smith’s 2018 book, Wade in the Water

Episode 145: poems from N. Scott Momaday and Li-Young Lee 08.08.2021 9:43 ↓

Three poems from N. Scott Momaday’s “Gourd Dancer” and three from Li-Young Lee’s “Blossoms”

Episode 144: Forgiveness - self & others 01.08.2021 9:23 ↓

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).

Episode 143: Gulf of Mexico poems 25.07.2021 8:39 ↓

This episode includes poems set in the Gulf of Mexico. Poems taken from Margaritas & Redfish (Lamar UP, 2013)

Episode 142: “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life” - Whitman and Self-doubt 18.07.2021 9:59 ↓

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.

Episode 141: Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices by Wisconsin ecology poet Maryann Hurtt 03.07.2021 13:04 ↓

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.

Episode 140: Robert Hass 27.06.2021 7:48 ↓

This episode includes poems from Robert Hass’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning book: Time and Materials.

Episode 139: Why Do We Write Elegies? 19.06.2021 13:48 ↓

Includes a poem by Dylan Thomas, two elegies by William Virgil Davis, one by Natasha Trethewey and one by Ken Hada.

Episode 138: Memorial Weekend 30.05.2021 11:51 ↓

Includes poems of remembrance by Quraysh Ali Lansana, Natasha Trethewey & Tracy K Smith as well as Ken Hada’s “When Friends Gather”

Episode 137: Lorna Dee Cervantes 22.05.2021 14:55 ↓

This episode features the rich variety of poetry from Lorna Dee Cervantes.