Ken Hada

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Ken Hada, professor and poet at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including Come before Winter (2023) and Contour Feathers (2021). His twelfth book, Visions for the Night, will be released in April at the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival on the campus of ECU.

  • A photograph of a cedar tree blanketed in snow

    In Days of Winter

    February 19, 2025 Ken Hada
    . . . I sleep early, risebefore daylight, waitwith patient stuporthe coming gray light. . . I move slowly,surreptitiously — ananimal hungry to find success in the hunt.In days of winter. . . I re…
  • The cover to Come Before Winter by Ken Hada

    Come Before Winter by Ken Hada

    Ken Hada
    Ringwood, Oklahoma. Turning Plow Press. 2023. 142 pages. Poems that draw on rural scenes and nature are not the flavor of the day. The poems gathered in Come Before Winter, Ken Hada’…
  • A photographic close-up of nearly ripe bananas

    Gary Brower and the Islands of the Dislocated

    June 6, 2018 Ken Hada
    America has long been at the crossroads of accepting diversity and empire-building. American interactions with diverse peoples have often been less than ideal. During confusing, often unjust, dealings…
  • Three White Horses

    Through the Long Darkness in Jonas Zdanys’s Three White Horses

    December 20, 2017 Ken Hada
    Jonas Zdanys is a master lyricist. The bilingual poet (English and Lithuanian) displays his versatile ability with a variety of poetic styles in several recent collections. In Red Stones (201…

  • The River White: A Confluence of Brush and Quill by Ken Hada

    Ken Hada
    Duane Hada, ill. Norman, Oklahoma. Mongrel Empire. 2011. ISBN 9780983305262Brothers Duane and Ken Hada have produced an unusual and unusually beautiful book, which traces the White River, from its ori…