DONREARDEN

Our Storm Relief fundraiser is underway and just over 24 hours in and I’m blown away by the generosity and kindness. I hope you’ll take a moment. Follow the link below, make a donation of any amount and you’ll received a link to download an ebook of my novel Moving Salmon Bay, but more importantly—you’ll be directly helping those in need. Any donation over $25 will automatically place your name in a drawing for the original artwork on the cover— an oil painting by my sister B

My sister, Beth Hill, painted this stunning piece that will be a part of the cover of Moving Salmon Bay -- the new ebook I'll be releasing soon. ALL proceeds from the ebook going to directly help those impacted by Typhoon Halong. A typhoon devastated my home region. Villages are destroyed. Lives lost. Homes and communities left in utter ruins. Alaskans and others from near and far have come to the aid of those displaced and left with nothing, but this is a long game and the

[A Land Acknowledgement – Originally delivered at the University of Alaska Anchorage 8/14/2025]   By Don Rearden (Alaskan Author and...

One evening this past fall, as I drove home with my son from his flag football practice, a spot for a rebroadcast of an Alaska Public...

A dear friend lost her husband this week, and so many of us grieve with her, as this extraordinary human being at the center both her and...

then in came the winds screaming down the mountain the giant hemlock shaking angry as us all that the end of April feels like the end of...

I didn't drink coffee until after highschool that summer I took a new job at River Marina first morning on the job Pat Jennings, my new...

sometimes spring forgets pauses along the route north and winter lingers [April 28th, 2023 -- poem #28 for National Poetry Month-- woke...

I'm more Neanderthal than the rest of you Homo sapiens so perhaps this provides me a little space to weigh in on all this outrage and...

Sometimes writers are credited with creating a new poetic form. I thought I invented the Haipoo, and of course someone already beat me to...

waiting comes with a certain heaviness, an anxiety seconds tick as hours one day, a year a week, a decade months millienia the import of...

a giant chicken flew into this cuckoo's nest a prank for my sister from our dad, delivered by air a cousin packing it thru TSA Montana to...

at Dzibilchaltún edge of the jungle away from the sun stricken pilgrims with their warm water bottles and selfie sticks and wide brimmed...

let's be clear I am not a fan of the attic it's not the spiders or cramped quarters darkness no issue either but spiders lurk in the mind...

I wish I could hold the words to express this one thing the way, when the sun returns to this land delivers with life such a flood...

I insist strange things today for you a student in my course I say get out! I point towards the exit go hunt, I insist for signs of life...

(Began in this day April 19, 1775) Our first we call the revolutionary war, so we could make each battle that followed special and just...

two nights ago in my sleep a friend came to visit bringing me from the place beyond bestowing such a gift and normally I control my...

I'm haunted by village gyms gone dark, the echo of a bouncing ball a tournament of teams empty jerseys floating whispers of invisible...

It all starts with children the home destruction spills, dents, cracks they wreck with the precision of a professional demolitionist but...