Public Media for Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Coffee At KYUK, November 20, 2020: Listen To Poems From Alaskan Author Don Rearden

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Joe Yelverton

Listen to Don Rearden, who grew up in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, read from his first book of poems, "Without a Paddle". The poems reflect his life as lived and remembered. It’s possible to recognize friends and neighbors in the words, and to step a bit into the reality of rural Alaska life.

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Johanna Eurich's vivid broadcast productions have been widely heard on National Public Radio since 1978. She spent her childhood speaking Thai, then learned English as a teenager and was educated at a dance academy, boarding schools and with leading intellectuals at her grandparents' dinner table in Philadelphia.