All Episodes
The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada — 210 episodes
Episode 211: Ingeborg Bachmann & Larry D Thomas
Episode 210: San Pedro River Review
Episode 209: Darrell Bourque’s tribute to Sinead O’Connor
Episode 208: “Lines Composed by Lantern Light”
Episode 207: Poems from California Quarterly
Episode 206: Miklos Radnoti
Episode 205: Jack Gilbert
Episode 204: “If I Were …”
Episode 203: Angela Hooper’s “Where the Sky is a Wall”
Episode 202: Gabriela Mistral
Episode 201: Jean Burden
Episode 200: Darrell Bourque
Episode 199: Nine More from CAP
Episode 198: Six poems from “Contemporary American Poetry”
Episode 197: 8 Female Voices
Episode 196: Octavio Quintanilla
Episode 195: Wendell Berry, “The Broken Ground”
Episode 194: Jonas Zdanys, from “The Thin Light of Winter”
Episode 193: Edward Abbey
Episode 192: 4 new poems
Episode 191: Edwin Markham
Episode 190: Robinson Jeffers
Episode 189: Michael Jennings
Episode 188: Zhenya Yevtushenko and Chera Hammons
Episode 187: Six New Poems
Episode 186: Wislawa Szymborska
Episode 185: Ann Howells, Bill McCloud, Nikki Herrin, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue
Episode 184: Streams in Mid-May
Episode 183: Bilgere, Heldrich and Hada
Episode 182: Brady Peterson’s “At the Edge of Town”
Episode 181: April, Morning & Light
Episode 180: Ten Acres of the Universe
Episode 179: Spring and All
Episode 178: Sunset in My Eyes, and some other poems from Bring an Extry Mule
Episode 177: Spending Time
Episode 176: LeAnne Howe, Evidence of Red
Episode 175: Roxana Cazan, Tethered to the Unexpected
Episode 174: The Voice of Winter
Episode 173: 6 New Winter Poems
Episode 172: Novalis: Hymns to the Night
Episode 171: Ruth Stone Poems
Episode 170: Elizabeth Raby Tribute
Episode 169: Bull Buffalo & Indian Paintbrush
Episode 168: Truth-Telling in Poetry
Episode 167: “The Question of Beauty”
Episode 166: Tennyson: “Ring out, wild bells”
Episode 165: Holiday poems
Episode 164: from “Poetry to the People”
Episode 163: Mining for Stardust
Episode 162: poems from Contour Feathers
Episode 161: selections from “Aint Nobody that Can Sing Like Me”
Episode 160: Ronin: Prose poems of Paul Juhasz
Episode 159: William Carlos Williams
Episode 158: George Bilgere’s poetry
Episode 157: “Wild Swans at Coole” by W B Yeats, and “Another Poem in October” by Ken Hada
Episode 156: When Happiness Comes
Episode 155: Berecka, Whisenhunt and new poems from Contour Feathers
Episode 154: poems from Julie Chappell’s new book: As I Pirouette Away
Episode 153: Contour Feathers
Episode 152: Poems from I-70 Review
Episode 151: new poems and new books from Cullen Whisenhunt, Alan Berecka and Ken Hada
Episode 150: Haesong Kwon
Episode 149: Poems at Dawn
Episode 148: Emily Bronte
Episode 147: “Morning Poems” Robert Bly
Episode 146: Tracy K Smith poems from Wade in the Water
Episode 145: poems from N. Scott Momaday and Li-Young Lee
Episode 144: Forgiveness - self & others
Episode 143: Gulf of Mexico poems
Episode 142: “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life” - Whitman and Self-doubt
Episode 141: Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices by Wisconsin ecology poet Maryann Hurtt
Episode 140: Robert Hass
Episode 139: Why Do We Write Elegies?
Episode 138: Memorial Weekend
Episode 137: Lorna Dee Cervantes
Episode 136: Akhmatova
Episode 135: Stephen Crane Poetry
Episode 134: James Dickey & Tree Houses
Episode 133: Lisha Adela Garcia - 3 poems
Episode 132: Dogwood & Childhood
Episode 131: Alex Z Salinas & Maureen DuRant
Episode 130: Too Late for Manly Hands
Episode 129: Kyce Bello- Refugia
Episode 128: Gary Snyder’s Riprap
Episode 127: Rumi
Episode 126: Neighbors
Episode 125: Returning Snow
Episode 124: Animals: Tokens of Myself
Episode 123: “I Would Like To Say”
Episode 122: three poems from Arthur Sze’s collection: The Glass Constellation plus two by Ken Hada
Episode 121: Betrayal but Hope
Episode 120: Loss & A Chance of Miracles
Episode 119: Aftermath & New Year Reflections
Episode 118: Holidays & The Heart of Survival
Episode 117: Passing Solstice
Episode 116: More Gulf Coast Poems: 3 from Odes & Elegies, plus 3 from Ken Hada
Episode 115: Elegies & Odes: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast
Episode 114: Better Dramas & Holiday Hay Rides
Episode 113: Rain and its Moods
Episode 112: Tiffany Midge
Episode 111: America the Beautiful
Episode 110: Jack O’ Lantern
Episode 109: The psychic burden of “Winter Coming” and “Flicker”
Episode 108: Minor Poets?
Episode 107: Machines (or not)
Episode 106: Chinese Autumn Poems
Episode 105: Intertextuality
Epidode 104: Oscuros and Masks
Episode 103:
Episode 102: tribute to Jim Spurr
Episode 101: speculative poetry
Episode 100
Episode 99: from Occoquan, Gary Worth Moody’s fierce poem “A Branch Bent Beyond Breaking”
Episode 98: “The Soul has Bandaged Moments”
Episode 97: poems located in August
Episode 96: poems by Maryann Hurtt and Ken Hada’s poem, “Late Summer Night”
Episode 95: Tribute to John Lewis & Reading the Odyssey during the Pandemic
Episode 94: Sunlight & Cedar & Sheltering in Place
Episode 93: Landing, Intrusion & It Will Hold
Episode 92: Feral Love Poems
Episode 91: The Panther and three poems about fathers.
Episode 90: The Effect of Art on a Life
Episode 89: Hopeful Innocence
Episode 88: At Waffle House, and 3 additional poems
Episode 87: Destiny- What Is vs What Could have Been
Episode 86: Beauty & Mortality
Episode 85: poems about mothers
Episode 84: features Dorothy Alexander’s courageous poem, “Let Morning Come” + 4 new poems by Ken
Episode 83: “Return”
Episode 82: In Desert Dust, A Flower, Texas Lonely at Dusk & Climbing Rimrock Trail
Episode 81: “Song for Atticus”
Episode 80: Walking Poems
Epidode 79: Will We Desire Touch?
Episode 78: Wild Flowers
Episode 77: “Bring an Extry Mule”
Episode 76: Four by James Wright
Episode 75: Mary Oliver and William Stafford
Episode 74
Episode 73: poems of the American South, featuring San Pedro River Review poets
Episode 72: Defining Moments
Episode 71: Mountains
Episode 70: meditations- Seamus Heaney, Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Lisha Adela Garcia
Episode 69: 3 by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Episode 68: the mythic undertow -two Wendell Berry poems and two new poems by Ken Hada
Episode 67
Episode 66
Episode 65: two new poems by Ken Hada
Episode 64: two poems by Jack Gilbert, one by James Tate, plus two new poems by Ken Hada
Episode 63: A Moment, In Twirling Darkness & Sliver of Moon
Episode 62: Domestic Poems
Episode 61: Ceremonies
Episode 60: Absence & Presence
Episode 59: The Achievement of Light
Voices for the voiceless: Cardenal & Volkow plus “Ramona” & “Waitress”
Passing October
Episode 56: Jazz poems: features 3 poems by Paul Austin: Nightfall, The Jazz Lover & Monk
Episode 55: October & Reflection
Episode 54: When Yellow Leaves First Fell, Two Deer in Twilight, Red Dirge. Cedar Grove & Moonlight
Episode 53: Pablo Neruda, Extravagaria
Episode 52: Three Wichita Poets
Episode 51
Episode 50: Wind Song
Episode 49: Domestic Transitions
Episode 48: Neruda & “Genesis”
Episode 47: features Carol Hamilton, Ann Howells, Sharon Edge Martin
Episode 46: “Peace of Wild Things” & “The Poet’s Lament” & “Cimarron”
Episode 45: poems from Jim Barnes and Margaritas & Redfish
Episode 44: Wisconsin poems
Episode 43: Jim Barnes & Phil Morgan & “A Basket of Peaches”
Episode 42: Woody Guthrie Poetry- Dorothy Alexander, Nathan Gunter, Jessica Isaacs & Sandra Soli
Episode 41: Brady Peterson, Roxana Cazan, C.D. Albin
Episode 40: Jane Kenyon poems
Episode 39: 2 Southwests
Episode 38: carol coffe reposa & family poems
Episode 37: Cautionary Tales from Nature
Episode 36: berecka/L. Nathan
Episode 35: schroeder/A. Rudolph
Episode 34: Ann Howells & Larry Thomas (the sea)
Episode 33: Zdanys, hammons & erdrich
Episode 32: newsom, mish & charles wright
Episode 31: Julie Chappell and Charles Wright
Episode 30: features Jeffrey Alfier (3 southern poems), “Baptism” & “Scissortail at Sunrise”
Episode 28: The River White, selected poems.
Episode 27: On the Spine after Love, What the Snake Knows & Grace Strokes
Episode 26: Transfiguration, The Great Divide, The Funeral & Butterfly Encounter
Episode 25: Free, What I Cannot Do, Digging & A Drink of Water
Episode 24: Brother Cardinal Sings to My Garden, Refugee & Apache Child
Episode 23: With the Owls, Jazz in Predawn, Moon in March & Two Herons
Episode 22: Return to Buffalo River, The Trees & The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer
Episode 21: Again, The Dream of Flying, Live Oaks in Texas & The Fox and All
Episode 20: Cocktail Waitress, Sloppy Woman, A Woman’s Secret Name & February
Episode 19: Andree Rexroth, Hands & Invocation
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
Episode 16: In the Foothills of Sorrow, Landscape & Little Boy Shucking Corn
Episode 15: Desert Places, November Night and Stars
Episode 14: Blackjacks Late in Winter, What the Wind Takes & The Beauty of Things
Episode 13: Rim Shoals in the Dark, Touched by an Angel & Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Episode 12: Breaking Ground, Dad’s Sled & Leveling.
Episode 11: In the Buddha’s Belly, In Kyoto & Basho Haiku
Episode 10: Horse, Two Horses in Morning Red, Night Rider, Black Horse Standing
Episode 9: Flight, Stasis & Cubist Birds
Episode 8: Slant of Light, Winter Moon & Abiding
Episode 7: Compensation, Song, Winter & Fallen Limbs
Episode 6: Pelicans on Lake Keystone; Outflow & My Favorite White Trash Diner
Episode 5: Canadian River; Down along the river & Confluence of the Norfork
Episode 4: Yellow Cottonwoods, Zucchini & What I Don’t Know
Episode 3 - First Frost & On Sparrowhawk Mountain
Episode 2 Persimmon Sunday
Poetry by Ken Hada - “The Anchor”and “Often”