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

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

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

Two poems by the author of Wuthering Heights

Ken reads from Robert Bly’s “Morning Poems”

Ken Hada reads from Tracy K Smith’s 2018 book, Wade in the Water

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

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 Affection).

This episode includes poems set in the Gulf of Mexico. Poems taken from Margaritas & Redfish (Lamar UP, 2013)

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 leads us to consider the efficacy of art.