Kenneth Hada is an Associate Professor in the English Department at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Some of his poetry appears in his recent book, The Way of the Wind (Village Books Press), as well as in Oklahoma Today, Poesia, RE:AL, Flint Hills Review, Crosstimbers, Westview, Kansas City Voices, among others. He also directs the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival held the first weekend of each April on the campus of ECU.