The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada

Episode 111: America the Beautiful

08 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Arg...

Episode 110: Jack O’ Lantern

31 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features three poems from SPARE PARTS about memories of death

Episode 109: The psychic burden of “Winter Coming” and “Flicker”

25 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Two new poems by ken Hada, borrowing a phrase from Paul Austin, and referring to the transactional theory of literature.

Episode 108: Minor Poets?

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode contains Charles Simic’s famous (and prescient) quote, plus 3 of his poems and one from yours truly. Enjoy.

Episode 107: Machines (or not)

11 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes a poem by Louise Gluck (Coincidentally, this episode was recorded the night before the Nobel Prize was announced). The program also includes ...

Episode 106: Chinese Autumn Poems

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Features Classical poems and contemporary author Huichun Lisng

Episode 105: Intertextuality

27 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Julie Chappell’s poem “Forgive Our Trespasses” responding to Alan Berecka’s poem “Our Trespasses” responding to Ken Hada’s poem...

Epidode 104: Oscuros and Masks

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by Octavio Quintanilla, Les Palmer, Dunbar, Yevtushenko and Ken Hada (kenhada.org)

Episode 103:

13 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes the poem “Ellison visits greenwood, 1921” by Quraysh Ali Lansana, and poems from Nathan Brown’s book “In the Days of Our Seclusion”...

Episode 102: tribute to Jim Spurr

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A new poem by Ken Hada, plus four poems by Jim Spurr

Episode 101: speculative poetry

30 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by W. B. Yeats, Lucille Clifton, Kim Addonizio, Melissa Studdard and two by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)

Episode 100

23 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Features Carol Reposa, Kerry Shawn Keys and two by Ken Hada

Episode 99: from Occoquan, Gary Worth Moody’s fierce poem “A Branch Bent Beyond Breaking”

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“A Branch Bent Beyond Breaking” from Gary Worth Moody’s book, Occoquan, his poetic and historical tribute to women’s rights in America.

Episode 98: “The Soul has Bandaged Moments”

09 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Yehuda Amichai, Shu Ting and two new poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)

Episode 97: poems located in August

02 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The program includes two poems from Jessica Isaacs’ book Deep August, a Dorothy Parker poem, “August” and three poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)

Episode 96: poems by Maryann Hurtt and Ken Hada’s poem, “Late Summer Night”

26 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Four poems from Maryann Hurtt’s 2016 chapbook, “River”. See Ken Hada’s work at kenhada.org

Episode 95: Tribute to John Lewis & Reading the Odyssey during the Pandemic

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tribute to John Lewis & Reading the Odyssey during the Pandemic. (kenhada.org)

Episode 94: Sunlight & Cedar & Sheltering in Place

12 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode includes several poems from Steven Schroeder’s new E-chapbook and 3 poems from Ken’s new book, Sunlight & Cedar

Episode 93: Landing, Intrusion & It Will Hold

05 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

3 new poems from Ken Hada: Landing, Intrusion & It Will Hold

Episode 92: Feral Love Poems

28 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems from Joey Brown’s new book plus “Pasture in Morning Light”

Episode 91: The Panther and three poems about fathers.

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Panther, Those Winter Sundays and two by Ken Hada

Episode 90: The Effect of Art on a Life

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 89: Hopeful Innocence

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Poems include “Pebbles” “Redbirds Balancing on Cedar Limbs” (from PERSIMMON SUNDAY) and a Rilke and Larkin poem.

Episode 88: At Waffle House, and 3 additional poems

31 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kenhada.org

Episode 87: Destiny- What Is vs What Could have Been

24 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Features “The God Who Loves You” by Carl Dennis

Episode 86: Beauty & Mortality

16 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Features Leonie Adams, “April Mortality” and Wallace Stevens, “of Mere Being”

Episode 85: poems about mothers

10 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Details at kenhada.org

Episode 84: features Dorothy Alexander’s courageous poem, “Let Morning Come” + 4 new poems by Ken

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Details at: kenhada.org

Episode 83: “Return”

26 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Hada’s poem about hymns and shooting a badketball (from Not Quite Pilgrims)

Episode 82: In Desert Dust, A Flower, Texas Lonely at Dusk & Climbing Rimrock Trail

19 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

3 new poems by Ken Hada - visit kenhada.org

Episode 81: “Song for Atticus”

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating new life, despite everything

Episode 80: Walking Poems

05 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Poems from Rilke, Whitman, a new poem by Robert Dean and Ken Hada

Epidode 79: Will We Desire Touch?

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Features Loretta Diane Walker’s response to the virus - and two new poems by Ken Hada.

Episode 78: Wild Flowers

22 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A poem gifted to my family by Larry D Thomas during the week of the birth of grandbaby Atticus Hada

Episode 77: “Bring an Extry Mule”

15 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Poems by Paul Bowers and Alan Berecka

Episode 76: Four by James Wright

08 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning, By a Lake in Minnesota, Trying to Pray and A Blessing

Episode 75: Mary Oliver and William Stafford

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

And a Hada poem

Episode 74

23 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

4 new poems by Ken Hada

Episode 73: poems of the American South, featuring San Pedro River Review poets

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

features a few poems recently published in the Spring 2020 issue (vol 12) of The San Pedro River Review

Episode 72: Defining Moments

09 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by Stanley Kunitz, Diane Glancy, Richard Dixon and a couple of mine ✌️

Episode 71: Mountains

02 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Emily Dickinson, Chip Dameron, Sandra Soli and four by Ken Hada

Episode 70: meditations- Seamus Heaney, Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Lisha Adela Garcia

26 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes a new poem “That Summer” by Ken Hafa

Episode 69: 3 by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

19 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel’s poetry is an overlooked voice from the Dust Bowl era. This episode includes “Pies” & “Gravy Says a Lot” & “Buri...

Episode 68: the mythic undertow -two Wendell Berry poems and two new poems by Ken Hada

12 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Two Wendell Berry poems and two new poems by Ken Hada (kenhada.org)

Episode 67

05 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Includes “Hometown” by Cabalquinto and some Ozark poems

Episode 66

29 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes five new winter poems by Ken Hada.

Episode 65: two new poems by Ken Hada

21 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features three by Ken Hada plus a Wendell Berry and a Jack Gilbert poem.

Episode 64: two poems by Jack Gilbert, one by James Tate, plus two new poems by Ken Hada

15 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In one sense, all writing is romantic - implying an idealism

Episode 63: A Moment, In Twirling Darkness & Sliver of Moon

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Three new poems from Ken Hada

Episode 62: Domestic Poems

01 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by John Yozzo, Sally Rhoades, Ben Myers and two from my book Spare Parts.

Episode 61: Ceremonies

23 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

My new poem, “Ceremony” along with poems by Pat Mora and Ofelia Zepeda

Episode 60: Absence & Presence

17 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features “Echoes” along with “Heartland” by Jim Barnes” and Kooser’s “Abandoned Farmhouse”

Episode 59: The Achievement of Light

10 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes a Larry Thomas poem, “The Light of Mexico” and 3 of my poems featuring the motif of light

Voices for the voiceless: Cardenal & Volkow plus “Ramona” & “Waitress”

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Four poems: Cardenal and Volkow plus “Ramona” & “Waitress”

Passing October

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes October poems by Tomas Transtromer, Claire Malroux & Joseph Brodsky

Episode 56: Jazz poems: features 3 poems by Paul Austin: Nightfall, The Jazz Lover & Monk

20 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features 3 poems by Paul Austin from his book Notes on Hard Times (Village Books Press), - see kenhada.org

Episode 55: October & Reflection

13 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 54: When Yellow Leaves First Fell, Two Deer in Twilight, Red Dirge. Cedar Grove & Moonlight

06 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Seasonal poems from Persimmon Sunday and The Way of the Wind, available at kenhada.org

Episode 53: Pablo Neruda, Extravagaria

28 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features “To Rise to the Sky” & “For the Daylight Moon” & “Horses” & “Pastoral” & “The Old Women of the Shore” & “Still Poise”...

Episode 52: Three Wichita Poets

22 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by Robert Dean, Roy Beckemeyer and Michael Poage

Episode 51

14 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Worth Moody, The Burnings

Episode 50: Wind Song

08 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kenhada.org

Episode 49: Domestic Transitions

31 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes a Donald Justice poem and Mark Jarman, plus “River Song”

Episode 48: Neruda & “Genesis”

25 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Two Neruda poems from The Captain’s Verses

Episode 47: features Carol Hamilton, Ann Howells, Sharon Edge Martin

18 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“By Any Other Name” & “Bigotry”& “Wait! You Thought I Was Talking about Venezuela? & “Eulogy for El Paso”

Episode 46: “Peace of Wild Things” & “The Poet’s Lament” & “Cimarron”

11 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From Wendell Berry & Bring an Extry Mule & Way of the Wind. Kenhada.org

Episode 45: poems from Jim Barnes and Margaritas & Redfish

04 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Read by ken hada

Episode 44: Wisconsin poems

27 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Poems found on my recent journey

Episode 43: Jim Barnes & Phil Morgan & “A Basket of Peaches”

20 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kenhada.org

Episode 42: Woody Guthrie Poetry- Dorothy Alexander, Nathan Gunter, Jessica Isaacs & Sandra Soli

14 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Poems from the 2019 anthology, Speak Your Mind: poems of protest & resistance (Woodyfest 2019)

Episode 41: Brady Peterson, Roxana Cazan, C.D. Albin

07 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Places with a variety of lyric and memory

Episode 40: Jane Kenyon poems

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Blue Bowl, Let Evening Come, August Rain, After Haying and Summer Rain

Episode 39: 2 Southwests

23 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Nathan Brown, Li Sen, S. Schroeder, A. Rudolph

Episode 38: carol coffe reposa & family poems

16 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Carol Coffee Reposa and family oems

Episode 37: Cautionary Tales from Nature

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features Michelle Hartman, Roxana Cazan & Leonard Nathan

Episode 36: berecka/L. Nathan

02 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Alan Berecka, Leonard Nathan, et al.

Episode 35: schroeder/A. Rudolph

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Schroeder & Aaron Rudolp

Episode 34: Ann Howells & Larry Thomas (the sea)

19 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Howells @ Larry Thomas, read by ken hada (kenhada.org)

Episode 33: Zdanys, hammons & erdrich

11 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Chera Hammons, Heid Erdrich, Jonas Zdanys

Episode 32: newsom, mish & charles wright

05 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes Brent Newsom, Jeanetta Mish & Charles Wright

Episode 31: Julie Chappell and Charles Wright

28 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From Mad Habits of a Life and Sestets.

Episode 30: features Jeffrey Alfier (3 southern poems), “Baptism” & “Scissortail at Sunrise”

21 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Three poems from Jeffrey Alfier’s new book, Gone This Long.

Episode 28: The River White, selected poems.

07 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ekphrastic poems responding to plein aire watercolor paintings of Duane Hada, created on the White River in north Arkansas. (See kenhada.org)

Episode 27: On the Spine after Love, What the Snake Knows & Grace Strokes

31 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features Poems by Gary Worth Moody & Julia McConnell.

Episode 26: Transfiguration, The Great Divide, The Funeral & Butterfly Encounter

24 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by Chris Ellery and Diane Glancy (kenhada.org)

Episode 25: Free, What I Cannot Do, Digging & A Drink of Water

17 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes a poem by Chris Ellery & two Seamus Heaney poems

Episode 24: Brother Cardinal Sings to My Garden, Refugee & Apache Child

10 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features poems by Lisha Adela Garcia and Larry D Thomas

Episode 23: With the Owls, Jazz in Predawn, Moon in March & Two Herons

03 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From my new book, Not Quite Pilgrims, available at kenhada.org

Episode 22: Return to Buffalo River, The Trees & The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer

24 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Features two poems by Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo

Episode 21: Again, The Dream of Flying, Live Oaks in Texas & The Fox and All

17 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sandra Soli & Paul Bowers are featured

Episode 20: Cocktail Waitress, Sloppy Woman, A Woman’s Secret Name & February

10 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by Ashe Loper and Elizabeth Raby

Episode 19: Andree Rexroth, Hands & Invocation

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes a Ben Myers poem & Kenneth Rexroth

Episode 18: The Railing, Office at Night 1940 & Symphonies in the Bush

27 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 18: The Railing, Office at Night 1940 & Symphonies in the Bush

Episode 17: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, First Attempts at Killing & Sleeping in the Forest

20 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cover art by Sarah A. Hada

Episode 16: In the Foothills of Sorrow, Landscape & Little Boy Shucking Corn

13 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by Ashe Loper & William Virgil Davis

Episode 15: Desert Places, November Night and Stars

06 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kenhada.org, Painting by Sarah A. Hada: “Sometimes All We Have Is Ourselves”

Episode 14: Blackjacks Late in Winter, What the Wind Takes & The Beauty of Things

30 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cover art by Sarah A. Hada

Episode 13: Rim Shoals in the Dark, Touched by an Angel & Ode: Intimations of Immortality

23 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dedicated to Megan & Kenny

Episode 12: Breaking Ground, Dad’s Sled & Leveling.

16 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Includes poems by Dorothy Alexander & Alan Berecka

Episode 11: In the Buddha’s Belly, In Kyoto & Basho Haiku

09 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Poems set in Japan, includes Hank Jones & Basho