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2023-07-2904 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 204: “If I Were …”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
2023-06-1708 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 201: Jean BurdenAfter 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)
2023-05-3009 min
i Had a conversationGuitarist Dren Mcdonald PodcastGuitarist Dren Mcdonald Podcast. Longtime friends and musical collaborators, guitarist Dren McDonald and drummer Ken Hada, delve deep into the fascinating realms of the creative process, audio engineering, AI, and composition. With their combined decades of experience in the music industry, the duo brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to this engaging episode. One …
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2023-05-271h 08The Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 193: Edward AbbeyKen 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.
2022-07-3110 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 192: 4 new poemsKen reads four new poems: “Blue Jay at Dawn,” “Wildflowers at Dusk,” “Nocturne” and “The World on Hold” - thanks for listening
2022-07-2304 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 191: Edwin MarkhamDuring 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.
2022-07-1512 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 190: Robinson JeffersKen reads Jeffers’ timely poems: “The Beauty of Things,” “Animals,” “The World’s Wonders,” “Time of Disturbance,” “The Old Stone-Mason” and “To Death”
2022-07-0813 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 188: Zhenya Yevtushenko and Chera HammonsKen reads two poems by Zhenya Yevtushenko and three from Chera Hammons’ 2020 book, “Maps of Injury”
2022-06-1209 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 187: Six New PoemsKen reads six of his newest poems, including: Darkness Comes to Me, Questing, Heartbreak, Radiation, Renewing and In the End
2022-06-0507 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 186: Wislawa SzymborskaKen 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”
2022-05-2908 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 185: Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-PardueKen reads poems by Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue and two of his own.
2022-05-2209 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 183: Bilgere, Heldrich and HadaKen 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
2022-05-0709 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 182: Brady Peterson’s “At the Edge of Town”Ken reads several poems from Brady Peterson’s latest book: At the Edge of Town. Plus a new poem by Ken Hada
2022-04-2411 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 181: April, Morning & LightKen reads a Philip Levine poem, plus several of his new poems
2022-04-1706 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 180: Ten Acres of the UniverseKen reads several poems from Paul Bowers’ new book: Ten Acres of the Universe (Turning Plow Press).
2022-04-1007 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 179: Spring and AllKen reads “Spring and All” plus two more from William Carlos Williams, and one from James Wright.
2022-04-0305 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 178: Sunset in My Eyes, and some other poems from Bring an Extry MuleKen reads 7 poems from his 2017 collection, BRING AN EXTRY MULE (Vacpoetry 2017). Some river poems and a couple other speingtime poems.
2022-03-2709 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 177: Spending TimeKen reads three of his poems: one old, two new ones. Thanks for listening
2022-03-2007 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 176: LeAnne Howe, Evidence of RedKen 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.
2022-03-1313 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 175: Roxana Cazan, Tethered to the UnexpectedKen reads from Roxana Cazan’s latest book: Tethered to the Unexpected: poems about illness
2022-03-0609 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 174: The Voice of WinterKen reads another batch of new work, echoing the winter weather and the geopolitical chaos felt this week.
2022-02-2709 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 173: 6 New Winter PoemsKen reads 6 new poems: Poem in the Afternoon, Morning Prayer, A Thawing, Snow Melt, Hope and The Light of Day
2022-02-2009 min2022-02-0610 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 170: Elizabeth Raby TributeKen reads from Elizabeth Raby’s book Beneath Green Rain
2022-01-3011 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 168: Truth-Telling in PoetryIn this episode, Ken reads poems by Rilke, Roethke, Hayden, Berecka, Thomas, Juhasz and three of his own from his 2010 book, “Spare Parts”
2022-01-1612 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 167: “The Question of Beauty”Considering Keats’ joining of beauty and truth, Ken reads poems by Robert Bridges, Emily Dickinson, Rupert Brooke, and one of his own poems.
2022-01-0909 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 166: Tennyson: “Ring out, wild bells”Recorded New Year’s Eve, Ken reads a few pertinent sections from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam A. H. H.”
2022-01-0110 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 165: Holiday poemsKen reads”Returning Snow” from Persimmon Sunday and some holiday poems from Sunlight & Cedar. Peace
2021-12-2409 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 164: from “Poetry to the People”Ken reads several poems from the 2013 anthology: “Poetry to the People” edited by Abby Wendle and Scott Gregory (This Land Press)
2021-12-1915 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 163: Mining for StardustKen reads poems from Kai Coggin’s new book: “Mining for Stardust”
2021-12-1109 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 162: poems from Contour FeathersKen reads several new poems from his latest book, Contour Feathers (Turning Plow Press, 2021).
2021-12-0507 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 160: Ronin: Prose poems of Paul JuhaszKen reads from Paul Juhasz’s new book, “Romin” (Fine Dog Press, 2021).
2021-11-2111 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 159: William Carlos WilliamsKen reads several poems from Williams’ Selected Poems, edited by Charles Tomlinson (New Directions).
2021-11-1406 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 158: George Bilgere’s poetryKen Hada reads three George Bilgere poems from “The White Museum” and three from “Blood Pages”
2021-11-0709 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 157: “Wild Swans at Coole” by W B Yeats, and “Another Poem in October” by Ken Hada“Another Poem in October” by Ken Hada and “The Wild Swans at Coole” by Yeats
2021-10-3104 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 155: Berecka, Whisenhunt and new poems from Contour FeathersKen Hada reads poems from new books by Alan Berecka and Cullen Whisenhunt and from his own new work: Contour Feathers.
2021-10-1709 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 153: Contour FeathersKen reads three poems from his new book, Contour Feathers (Turning Plow Press, 2021), plus a new, unpublished poem.
2021-10-0306 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 151: new poems and new books from Cullen Whisenhunt, Alan Berecka and Ken HadaReading from “Among the Trees” & “A Living is Not a Life” & “Contour Feathers”
2021-09-1810 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 150: Haesong KwonPoems from Haesong Kwon’s book, The People’s Field, and a new poem by Ken Hada
2021-09-1210 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 149: Poems at DawnKen reads two of his dawn poems: “Ceremony” and “Geese at Dawn” from Sunlight & Cedar
2021-09-0504 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 147: “Morning Poems” Robert BlyKen reads from Robert Bly’s “Morning Poems”
2021-08-2206 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 146: Tracy K Smith poems from Wade in the WaterKen Hada reads from Tracy K Smith’s 2018 book, Wade in the Water
2021-08-1506 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 139: Why Do We Write Elegies?Includes a poem by Dylan Thomas, two elegies by William Virgil Davis, one by Natasha Trethewey and one by Ken Hada.
2021-06-1913 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 138: Memorial WeekendIncludes poems of remembrance by Quraysh Ali Lansana, Natasha Trethewey & Tracy K Smith as well as Ken Hada’s “When Friends Gather”
2021-05-3011 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 136: AkhmatovaThis episode features four poems Russian great Anna Akhmatova and three new poems by Ken Hada
2021-05-1610 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 134: James Dickey & Tree HousesThis 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”
2021-05-0207 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 132: Dogwood & ChildhoodThis episode features four poems from childhood memories, from SPARE PARTS, by Ken Hada (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010)
2021-04-1806 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 125: Returning SnowThis 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
2021-02-1409 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 124: Animals: Tokens of MyselfThe 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
2021-02-0709 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 123: “I Would Like To Say”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”
2021-01-3105 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 122: three poems from Arthur Sze’s collection: The Glass Constellation plus two by Ken HadaThis episode features 3 poems by Arthur Sze, from his forthcoming collection: The Glass Constellation (Copper Canyon Press), plus two new poems by Ken Hada
2021-01-2407 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 121: Betrayal but HopeToday’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”
2021-01-1712 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 120: Loss & A Chance of MiraclesIn 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”
2021-01-1007 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 118: Holidays & The Heart of SurvivalIncludes Neruda, “The Seeker” and Jane Kenyon’s “Evening Sun” and two by Ken Hada: “The Bridge” & “Looking Up”
2020-12-2707 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 117: Passing SolsticeIncludes winter poems by Hardy, Frost, Oliver and Ken Hada’s poem “Passing Solstice”
2020-12-1907 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 116: More Gulf Coast Poems: 3 from Odes & Elegies, plus 3 from Ken Hada3 poems from the Texas Gulf Coast anthology, Odes & Elegies, and 3 from Ken Hada’s collection, Margaritas & Redfish.
2020-12-1310 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 115: Elegies & Odes: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf CoastEco-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
2020-12-0616 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 113: Rain and its MoodsKen reads five of his poems from various settings, occurring in rain: Conspiracy of Rain; Chicago Rain, Texas Rain, Light Rain: Kyoto & Winter Rain
2020-11-2208 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 109: The psychic burden of “Winter Coming” and “Flicker”Two new poems by ken Hada, borrowing a phrase from Paul Austin, and referring to the transactional theory of literature.
2020-10-2510 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 107: Machines (or not)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.
2020-10-1114 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 105: IntertextualityIncludes Julie Chappell’s poem “Forgive Our Trespasses” responding to Alan Berecka’s poem “Our Trespasses” responding to Ken Hada’s poem “Persimmon Sunday”
2020-09-2716 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpidode 104: Oscuros and MasksIncludes poems by Octavio Quintanilla, Les Palmer, Dunbar, Yevtushenko and Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
2020-09-2011 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 103: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)
2020-09-1314 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 102: tribute to Jim SpurrA new poem by Ken Hada, plus four poems by Jim Spurr
2020-09-0610 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 101: speculative poetryIncludes poems by W. B. Yeats, Lucille Clifton, Kim Addonizio, Melissa Studdard and two by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
2020-08-3009 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 100Features Carol Reposa, Kerry Shawn Keys and two by Ken Hada
2020-08-2310 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 98: “The Soul has Bandaged Moments”This episode includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Yehuda Amichai, Shu Ting and two new poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
2020-08-0908 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 97: poems located in AugustThe program includes two poems from Jessica Isaacs’ book Deep August, a Dorothy Parker poem, “August” and three poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
2020-08-0207 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 96: poems by Maryann Hurtt and Ken Hada’s poem, “Late Summer Night”Four poems from Maryann Hurtt’s 2016 chapbook, “River”. See Ken Hada’s work at kenhada.org
2020-07-2606 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 94: Sunlight & Cedar & Sheltering in PlaceThis episode includes several poems from Steven Schroeder’s new E-chapbook and 3 poems from Ken’s new book, Sunlight & Cedar
2020-07-1211 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 93: Landing, Intrusion & It Will Hold3 new poems from Ken Hada: Landing, Intrusion & It Will Hold
2020-07-0505 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 91: The Panther and three poems about fathers.The Panther, Those Winter Sundays and two by Ken Hada
2020-06-2108 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 84: features Dorothy Alexander’s courageous poem, “Let Morning Come” + 4 new poems by KenDetails at: kenhada.org
2020-05-0308 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 83: “Return”Ken Hada’s poem about hymns and shooting a badketball (from Not Quite Pilgrims)
2020-04-2606 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 82: In Desert Dust, A Flower, Texas Lonely at Dusk & Climbing Rimrock Trail3 new poems by Ken Hada - visit kenhada.org
2020-04-1905 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 80: Walking PoemsPoems from Rilke, Whitman, a new poem by Robert Dean and Ken Hada
2020-04-0508 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpidode 79: Will We Desire Touch?Features Loretta Diane Walker’s response to the virus - and two new poems by Ken Hada.
2020-03-2905 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 78: Wild FlowersA poem gifted to my family by Larry D Thomas during the week of the birth of grandbaby Atticus Hada
2020-03-2205 min2020-03-0106 min2020-02-2305 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 71: MountainsIncludes Emily Dickinson, Chip Dameron, Sandra Soli and four by Ken Hada
2020-02-0208 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 70: meditations- Seamus Heaney, Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Lisha Adela GarciaIncludes a new poem “That Summer” by Ken Hafa
2020-01-2611 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 68: the mythic undertow -two Wendell Berry poems and two new poems by Ken HadaTwo Wendell Berry poems and two new poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)
2020-01-1204 min2019-12-2904 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 65: two new poems by Ken HadaFeatures three by Ken Hada plus a Wendell Berry and a Jack Gilbert poem.
2019-12-2106 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 64: two poems by Jack Gilbert, one by James Tate, plus two new poems by Ken HadaIn one sense, all writing is romantic - implying an idealism
2019-12-1507 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 63: A Moment, In Twirling Darkness & Sliver of MoonThree new poems from Ken Hada
2019-12-0803 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 55: October & ReflectionAn excerpt of Dylan Thomas’ Poem in October plus Ken Hada’s poems: Pastels, A Night Like This, Fallen, Sundown on the Blue River & Conflicted
2019-10-1307 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 45: poems from Jim Barnes and Margaritas & RedfishRead by ken hada
2019-08-0409 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 34: Ann Howells & Larry Thomas (the sea)Howells @ Larry Thomas, read by ken hada (kenhada.org)
2019-05-1908 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 28: The River White, selected poems.Ekphrastic poems responding to plein aire watercolor paintings of Duane Hada, created on the White River in north Arkansas. (See kenhada.org)
2019-04-0707 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 17: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, First Attempts at Killing & Sleeping in the ForestCover art by Sarah A. Hada
2019-01-2006 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 15: Desert Places, November Night and StarsKenhada.org, Painting by Sarah A. Hada: “Sometimes All We Have Is Ourselves”
2019-01-0604 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 14: Blackjacks Late in Winter, What the Wind Takes & The Beauty of ThingsCover art by Sarah A. Hada
2018-12-3005 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 10: Horse, Two Horses in Morning Red, Night Rider, Black Horse StandingPoetry by Ken Hada, includes 2 poems by Ron Wallace - see kenhada.org
2018-12-0224 minThe Sunday Poems with Ken HadaEpisode 8: Slant of Light, Winter Moon & AbidingInformation about Ken Hada’s poetry can be found at kenhada.org
2018-11-1803 min
The Sunday Poems with Ken HadaPoetry by Ken Hada - “The Anchor”and “Often”Ken Hada reads “The Anchor” and “Often” in this first episode.
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