Ken Hada has published 11 volumes of poetry. You may find contact, & other information about his work at www.kenhada.org
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Episode 211: Ingeborg Bachmann & Larry D Thomas
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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.
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Episode 210: San Pedro River Review
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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.
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Episode 209: Darrell Bourque’s tribute to Sinead O’Connor
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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
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Episode 208: “Lines Composed by Lantern Light”
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A new poem by Ken Hada
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Episode 207: Poems from California Quarterly
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Ken reads poems from the Spring 2023 edition of California Quarterly
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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).
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Ken reads poems from Jack Gilbert
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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
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Episode 203: Angela Hooper’s “Where the Sky is a Wall”
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Ken reads from Angela Hooper’s debut collection, “Where the Sky is a Wall” (forthcoming, Village Books Press)
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Ken reads poems from Chilean Nobel Prize winner, Gabriela Mistral
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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)
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Ken reads from Darrell Bourque’s book: “In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems” (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010).
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Ken reads nine additional poems from Contemporary American Poetry, edited by R.S. Gwynn and April Lindner (Penguin, 2005)
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Episode 198: Six poems from “Contemporary American Poetry”
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from “Contemporary American Poetry” edited by RS Gwynn and April Lindner (Penguin, 2005)
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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 B…
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Ken reads poems by Octavio Quintanilla, his first book: “If I Go Missing” (Slough Press, 2014)
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Episode 195: Wendell Berry, “The Broken Ground”
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Ken reads from one of Berry’s early collections. Berry is one of the foremost voices in environmentally-sensitive writing and place writing
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Episode 194: Jonas Zdanys, from “The Thin Light of Winter”
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Four poems from THE THIN LIGHT OF WINTER, by Jonas Zdanys: “The Dry Season,” “This Morning,” “Light” and “The Door” (Virtual Artists Collective, 2009)
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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.
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Ken reads four new poems: “Blue Jay at Dawn,” “Wildflowers at Dusk,” “Nocturne” and “The World on Hold” - thanks for listening
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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.
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Ken reads Jeffers’ timely poems: “The Beauty of Things,” “Animals,” “The World’s Wonders,” “Time of Disturbance,” “The Old Stone-Mason” and “To Death”
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Readings from “When She Became You / Songs To Suzanne” by Michael Jennings (Black Spruce Press, 2022).
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Episode 188: Zhenya Yevtushenko and Chera Hammons
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Ken reads two poems by Zhenya Yevtushenko and three from Chera Hammons’ 2020 book, “Maps of Injury”
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Ken reads six of his newest poems, including: Darkness Comes to Me, Questing, Heartbreak, Radiation, Renewing and In the End
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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”
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Episode 185: Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue
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Ken reads poems by Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue and two of his own.
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Two poems from Not Quite Pilgrims, plus three new poems, and two from The Way of the Wind - water, fishing and our human journey
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Episode 183: Bilgere, Heldrich and Hada
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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
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Episode 182: Brady Peterson’s “At the Edge of Town”
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Ken reads several poems from Brady Peterson’s latest book: At the Edge of Town. Plus a new poem by Ken Hada
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Ken reads a Philip Levine poem, plus several of his new poems
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Episode 180: Ten Acres of the Universe
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Ken reads several poems from Paul Bowers’ new book: Ten Acres of the Universe (Turning Plow Press).
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Ken reads “Spring and All” plus two more from William Carlos Williams, and one from James Wright.
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Episode 178: Sunset in My Eyes, and some other poems from Bring an Extry Mule
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Ken reads 7 poems from his 2017 collection, BRING AN EXTRY MULE (Vacpoetry 2017). Some river poems and a couple other speingtime poems.
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Ken reads three of his poems: one old, two new ones. Thanks for listening
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Episode 176: LeAnne Howe, Evidence of Red
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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.
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Episode 175: Roxana Cazan, Tethered to the Unexpected
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Ken reads from Roxana Cazan’s latest book: Tethered to the Unexpected: poems about illness
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Ken reads another batch of new work, echoing the winter weather and the geopolitical chaos felt this week.
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Ken reads 6 new poems: Poem in the Afternoon, Morning Prayer, A Thawing, Snow Melt, Hope and The Light of Day
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Episode 172: Novalis: Hymns to the Night
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Hymns to the Night, a classic text from German Romanticism
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Ken reads several poems by Ruth Stone
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Episode 170: Elizabeth Raby Tribute
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Ken reads from Elizabeth Raby’s book Beneath Green Rain
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Episode 169: Bull Buffalo & Indian Paintbrush
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Eleven poems (from eleven poets) from the Oklahoma anthology Bull Buffalo & Indian Paintbrush, edited by Ron Wallace
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Episode 168: Truth-Telling in Poetry
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In this episode, Ken reads poems by Rilke, Roethke, Hayden, Berecka, Thomas, Juhasz and three of his own from his 2010 book, “Spare Parts”
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Episode 167: “The Question of Beauty”
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Considering Keats’ joining of beauty and truth, Ken reads poems by Robert Bridges, Emily Dickinson, Rupert Brooke, and one of his own poems.
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Episode 166: Tennyson: “Ring out, wild bells”
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Recorded New Year’s Eve, Ken reads a few pertinent sections from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam A. H. H.”
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Ken reads”Returning Snow” from Persimmon Sunday and some holiday poems from Sunlight & Cedar. Peace
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Episode 164: from “Poetry to the People”
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Ken reads several poems from the 2013 anthology: “Poetry to the People” edited by Abby Wendle and Scott Gregory (This Land Press)
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Ken reads poems from Kai Coggin’s new book: “Mining for Stardust”
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Episode 162: poems from Contour Feathers
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Ken reads several new poems from his latest book, Contour Feathers (Turning Plow Press, 2021).
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