Tulsa LitFest Keynote Address on Environmentalism
Schedule
Sat Apr 25 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Helmerich Research Center Auditorium (OSU Tulsa) | Tulsa, OK
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Join keynote speakers Ken Hada and Daniela Naomi Molnar as they discuss the relationship between their writing and the environment.About this Event
This year's Tulsa LitFest keynotes will be delivered by Ada-based poet Ken Hada and visiting poet Daniela Naomi Molnar. Both authors have written extensively about the environment and nature, and their keynotes will address their personal relationship with the world outside and how their writing is influenced by it.
This event will be feature a catered reception after the keynote addreses. Author books will be available for purchase.
Ken Hada
Ken Hada is a poet and professor at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma where he directs the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival. Ken finds the natural order a powerful presence for writing. His work has received the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award, the 2017 SCMLA Poetry Prize, has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, received the Western Heritage Award, named finalist for the Spur Award and six-time finalist for the Oklahoma Book Awards. In 2017 Ken gratefully accepted the Glenda Carlile Distinguished Service Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. His published poetry collections include: Visions for the Night, Come Before Winter, Feral Skies: Selected Poems 2008-2020, Contour Feathers, Sunlight & Cedar, Not Quite Pilgrims, Bring an Extry Mule, Persimmon Sunday, Spare Parts, Margaritas & Redfish, The Way of the Wind and The River White: A Confluence of Brush & Quill. The “Ken Hada Collection” is held at the Western History Collection Library at the University of Oklahoma. Ken enjoys reading his work at venues around the country.
https://kenhada.org/
Daniela Naomi Molnar
Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who creates with color, water, language, and place. Her debut book, CHORUS, won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press’s 1st/2nd Book Award. Her paintings are created with pigments she makes from plants, bones, stones, rainwater, and glacial melt. Forthcoming books include Memory of a Larger Mind (Omnidawn, 2028) and Light / Remains (Bored Wolves Press, 2026). Her book-length poem “Memory of a Larger Mind” accompanies photographs by Julian Stettler in The Glacier Is a Being (Sturm & Drang, 2023). Her work is anthologized in the forthcoming second volume of The Ecopoetry Anthology and in Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology from the Laurel Review. Molnar lives in Portland, Oregon and in the high deserts of the North American West.
www.danielamolnar.com / Instagram: @daniela_naomi_molnar
Tulsa LitFest is brought to you by The Center for Poets and Writers, Tri City Collective, and Magic City Books.
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Helmerich Research Center Auditorium (OSU Tulsa), 700 North Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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