Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices by Maryann Hurtt (Turning Plow Press, 2021). Wisconsin poet, Maryann Hurtt, provides historical insight, empathy and conviction in this poetic, historically documented, and personally witnessed accounting of one of the terrible ecological disasters of Oklahoma, and America.

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

Includes a poem by Dylan Thomas, two elegies by William Virgil Davis, one by Natasha Trethewey and one by Ken Hada.

Includes poems of remembrance by Quraysh Ali Lansana, Natasha Trethewey & Tracy K Smith as well as Ken Hada’s “When Friends Gather”

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

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

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

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”

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

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