The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada

Episode 211: Ingeborg Bachmann & Larry D Thomas

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 210: San Pedro River Review

12 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Blu...

Episode 209: Darrell Bourque’s tribute to Sinead O’Connor

05 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 208: “Lines Composed by Lantern Light”

29 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new poem by Ken Hada

Episode 207: Poems from California Quarterly

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads poems from the Spring 2023 edition of California Quarterly

Episode 206: Miklos Radnoti

01 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

Episode 205: Jack Gilbert

24 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads poems from Jack Gilbert

Episode 204: “If I Were …”

17 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In these new poems, Ken Hada draws upon a biographical aspect of several famous poets as possible points of identification and relationship for the au...

Episode 203: Angela Hooper’s “Where the Sky is a Wall”

10 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads from Angela Hooper’s debut collection, “Where the Sky is a Wall” (forthcoming, Village Books Press)

Episode 202: Gabriela Mistral

03 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads poems from Chilean Nobel Prize winner, Gabriela Mistral

Episode 201: Jean Burden

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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” (Clar...

Episode 200: Darrell Bourque

17 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads from Darrell Bourque’s book: “In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems” (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010).

Episode 199: Nine More from CAP

10 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads nine additional poems from Contemporary American Poetry, edited by R.S. Gwynn and April Lindner (Penguin, 2005)

Episode 198: Six poems from “Contemporary American Poetry”

03 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

from “Contemporary American Poetry” edited by RS Gwynn and April Lindner (Penguin, 2005)

Episode 197: 8 Female Voices

27 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Poems from: Elizabeth Raby, “Beneath Green Rain” (Vacpoetry: Purple Flag Press, 2015), Chera Hammons. “The Traveler’s Guide to Bomb City” (V...

Episode 196: Octavio Quintanilla

20 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads poems by Octavio Quintanilla, his first book: “If I Go Missing” (Slough Press, 2014)

Episode 195: Wendell Berry, “The Broken Ground”

13 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads from one of Berry’s early collections. Berry is one of the foremost voices in environmentally-sensitive writing and place writing

Episode 194: Jonas Zdanys, from “The Thin Light of Winter”

06 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Four poems from THE THIN LIGHT OF WINTER, by Jonas Zdanys: “The Dry Season,” “This Morning,” “Light” and “The Door” (Virtual Artists C...

Episode 193: Edward Abbey

30 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 192: 4 new poems

23 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads four new poems: “Blue Jay at Dawn,” “Wildflowers at Dusk,” “Nocturne” and “The World on Hold” - thanks for listening

Episode 191: Edwin Markham

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During this weekend celebrating Woody Guthrie, Ken reads from a kindred spirit - Edwin Markham, most famous for “The Man With The Hoe” - but also ...

Episode 190: Robinson Jeffers

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads Jeffers’ timely poems: “The Beauty of Things,” “Animals,” “The World’s Wonders,” “Time of Disturbance,” “The Old Stone...

Episode 189: Michael Jennings

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Readings from “When She Became You / Songs To Suzanne” by Michael Jennings (Black Spruce Press, 2022).

Episode 188: Zhenya Yevtushenko and Chera Hammons

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads two poems by Zhenya Yevtushenko and three from Chera Hammons’ 2020 book, “Maps of Injury”

Episode 187: Six New Poems

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads six of his newest poems, including: Darkness Comes to Me, Questing, Heartbreak, Radiation, Renewing and In the End

Episode 186: Wislawa Szymborska

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads three of Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska’s poems - her timely poetic impulse declares “Life goes on” and bears witness to the “...

Episode 185: Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads poems by Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue and two of his own.

Episode 184: Streams in Mid-May

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two poems from Not Quite Pilgrims, plus three new poems, and two from The Way of the Wind - water, fishing and our human journey

Episode 183: Bilgere, Heldrich and Hada

07 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads George Bilgere’s “Because I could not Stop for Death” from Central Air (Pittsburgh UP, 2022) and Philip Heldrich: three poems from Goo...

Episode 182: Brady Peterson’s “At the Edge of Town”

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads several poems from Brady Peterson’s latest book: At the Edge of Town. Plus a new poem by Ken Hada

Episode 181: April, Morning & Light

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads a Philip Levine poem, plus several of his new poems

Episode 180: Ten Acres of the Universe

09 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads several poems from Paul Bowers’ new book: Ten Acres of the Universe (Turning Plow Press).

Episode 179: Spring and All

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads “Spring and All” plus two more from William Carlos Williams, and one from James Wright.

Episode 178: Sunset in My Eyes, and some other poems from Bring an Extry Mule

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads 7 poems from his 2017 collection, BRING AN EXTRY MULE (Vacpoetry 2017). Some river poems and a couple other speingtime poems.

Episode 177: Spending Time

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads three of his poems: one old, two new ones. Thanks for listening

Episode 176: LeAnne Howe, Evidence of Red

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Episode 175: Roxana Cazan, Tethered to the Unexpected

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads from Roxana Cazan’s latest book: Tethered to the Unexpected: poems about illness

Episode 174: The Voice of Winter

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads another batch of new work, echoing the winter weather and the geopolitical chaos felt this week.

Episode 173: 6 New Winter Poems

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads 6 new poems: Poem in the Afternoon, Morning Prayer, A Thawing, Snow Melt, Hope and The Light of Day

Episode 172: Novalis: Hymns to the Night

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hymns to the Night, a classic text from German Romanticism

Episode 171: Ruth Stone Poems

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads several poems by Ruth Stone

Episode 170: Elizabeth Raby Tribute

29 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads from Elizabeth Raby’s book Beneath Green Rain

Episode 169: Bull Buffalo & Indian Paintbrush

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eleven poems (from eleven poets) from the Oklahoma anthology Bull Buffalo & Indian Paintbrush, edited by Ron Wallace

Episode 168: Truth-Telling in Poetry

15 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Ken reads poems by Rilke, Roethke, Hayden, Berecka, Thomas, Juhasz and three of his own from his 2010 book, “Spare Parts”

Episode 167: “The Question of Beauty”

08 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Considering Keats’ joining of beauty and truth, Ken reads poems by Robert Bridges, Emily Dickinson, Rupert Brooke, and one of his own poems.

Episode 166: Tennyson: “Ring out, wild bells”

01 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded New Year’s Eve, Ken reads a few pertinent sections from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam A. H. H.”

Episode 165: Holiday poems

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads”Returning Snow” from Persimmon Sunday and some holiday poems from Sunlight & Cedar. Peace

Episode 164: from “Poetry to the People”

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads several poems from the 2013 anthology: “Poetry to the People” edited by Abby Wendle and Scott Gregory (This Land Press)

Episode 163: Mining for Stardust

11 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads poems from Kai Coggin’s new book: “Mining for Stardust”

Episode 162: poems from Contour Feathers

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads several new poems from his latest book, Contour Feathers (Turning Plow Press, 2021).

Episode 161: selections from “Aint Nobody that Can Sing Like Me”

27 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 159: William Carlos Williams

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 158: George Bilgere’s poetry

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 156: When Happiness Comes

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 153: Contour Feathers

03 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 150: Haesong Kwon

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 149: Poems at Dawn

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 148: Emily Bronte

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Two poems by the author of Wuthering Heights

Episode 147: “Morning Poems” Robert Bly

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads from Robert Bly’s “Morning Poems”

Episode 146: Tracy K Smith poems from Wade in the Water

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 144: Forgiveness - self & others

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Affe...

Episode 143: Gulf of Mexico poems

25 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 lea...

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

03 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices by Maryann Hurtt (Turning Plow Press, 2021). Wisconsin poet, Maryann Hurtt, provides historical insight, empa...

Episode 140: Robert Hass

27 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 139: Why Do We Write Elegies?

19 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 136: Akhmatova

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features four poems Russian great Anna Akhmatova and three new poems by Ken Hada

Episode 135: Stephen Crane Poetry

09 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Crane poems from “War is Kind” and from “The Black Riders” and an uncollected poem, “A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar”

Episode 134: James Dickey & Tree Houses

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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”...

Episode 133: Lisha Adela Garcia - 3 poems

24 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This program features 3 poems from San Antonio poet Lisha Adela Garcia

Episode 132: Dogwood & Childhood

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features four poems from childhood memories, from SPARE PARTS, by Ken Hada (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010)

Episode 131: Alex Z Salinas & Maureen DuRant

27 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features poems from “Warbles” by Salinas and “Skirmishes on the Okie-Irish Border” by DuRant

Episode 130: Too Late for Manly Hands

21 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features four poems from Hank Jones’ debut collection: Too Late for Manly Hands (Turning Plow Press)

Episode 129: Kyce Bello- Refugia

14 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features the poetry of New Mexico poet Kyce Bello from her award-winning book Refugia.

Episode 128: Gary Snyder’s Riprap

06 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features five poems from legendary poet Gary Snyder’s Riprap

Episode 127: Rumi

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features five poems by the 13th-century Sufi mystic

Episode 126: Neighbors

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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.

Episode 125: Returning Snow

14 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features several winter poems by Ken Hada, from Persimmon Sunday, Bring an Extry Mule & Margaritas & Redfish. Thanks for listening and fo...

Episode 124: Animals: Tokens of Myself

07 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, an...

Episode 123: “I Would Like To Say”

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, 20...

Episode 122: three poems from Arthur Sze’s collection: The Glass Constellation plus two by Ken Hada

23 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features 3 poems by Arthur Sze, from his forthcoming collection: The Glass Constellation (Copper Canyon Press), plus two new poems by Ken...

Episode 121: Betrayal but Hope

17 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Episode 120: Loss & A Chance of Miracles

10 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Episode 119: Aftermath & New Year Reflections

03 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 118: Holidays & The Heart of Survival

27 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Neruda, “The Seeker” and Jane Kenyon’s “Evening Sun” and two by Ken Hada: “The Bridge” & “Looking Up”

Episode 117: Passing Solstice

19 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes winter poems by Hardy, Frost, Oliver and Ken Hada’s poem “Passing Solstice”

Episode 116: More Gulf Coast Poems: 3 from Odes & Elegies, plus 3 from Ken Hada

12 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

3 poems from the Texas Gulf Coast anthology, Odes & Elegies, and 3 from Ken Hada’s collection, Margaritas & Redfish.

Episode 115: Elegies & Odes: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast

06 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 114: Better Dramas & Holiday Hay Rides

29 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Two poems concerning our winter holidays- memory despite loss

Episode 113: Rain and its Moods

22 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ken reads five of his poems from various settings, occurring in rain: Conspiracy of Rain; Chicago Rain, Texas Rain, Light Rain: Kyoto & Winter Rain

Episode 112: Tiffany Midge

15 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Features Tiffany Midge: four poems from The Woman Who Married a Bear