Tele Aadsen

writer - fisherman - listener

raven speaking from top of dock piling

Read & Listen

Watch Sus­tain­abil­i­ty, an excerpt from What Water Holds, shared at the Lib­er­ty The­atre in Asto­ria, Ore­gon, Fish­er­Po­ets Gath­er­ing 2023

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The Working Boats Coloring Book

Working Boats Coloring Book

This rich­ly illus­trat­ed col­or­ing book, inspired by Tom Crestodina’s best­selling Work­ing Boats pic­ture book, is per­fect for col­or­ing enthu­si­asts of all ages who are curi­ous about boats and the mar­itime world.

Step into the fas­ci­nat­ing world of work­ing boats with this fun and gor­geous col­or­ing book filled with Tom Crestodina’s illus­tra­tions of intrigu­ing boats and live­ly mar­itime scenes. Col­or­ing enthu­si­asts of all ages will love bring­ing this world to life in full col­or. This col­or­ing book fea­tures 31 full-page illus­tra­tions for col­or­ing. On fac­ing pages, the book also includes infor­ma­tion about each of the draw­ings, with text by Fish­er­Po­et and essay­ist Tele Aad­sen, paired with small­er illus­tra­tions, which also wel­come coloring.

Avail­able Novem­ber 2023

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I Sing the Salmon Home

For this unique col­lec­tion cel­e­brat­ing salmon, Wash­ing­ton State Poet Lau­re­ate and Lum­mi trib­al mem­ber Rena Priest gath­ered poems from more than 150 Wash­ing­ton poets rang­ing from first graders to trib­al elders, all inspired by the Northwest’s beloved, icon­ic salmon. A diverse cho­rus of voic­es, they join togeth­er in poems that praise salmon’s hero­ic jour­ney, beau­ty, courage, and gen­eros­i­ty and wit­ness the threats salmon face from pol­lu­tion, dams and warm­ing ocean

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I Sing the Salmon Home

Listen

Hear­ing Voic­es, Com­ing Home, & The Sis­ter­hood, excerpts from What Water Holds

Lis­ten

Read: Hooked

Hooked Turns Two!

by | Mar 20, 2013 | ,

Birth­days are impor­tant to me, but I’ve been slip­ping late­ly. Just last week, I kept a close eye on the cal­en­dar, eager to call my dad on his high holy day. And I did call him – only to learn that I’d cir­cled a date two days past due. Oops. Between that and the…

Selling Words: Remembering My First Time

by | Mar 14, 2013 | ,

I’ve been think­ing about what it means to turn our expe­ri­ences into words to be shared with oth­ers. Also, the disin­gen­u­ous­ness of describ­ing this process as “shar­ing.” Almost all of the writ­ers I know hope to see their words val­ued not only in a…

The Golden Scrub Brush

by | Mar 8, 2013 | ,

One after­noon last August, the Ner­ka bucked hard into a steep West­er­ly chop. Strug­gling to keep my bal­ance while flush­ing the blood out of a gut­ted king salmon, I groused under my breath. Only work half the year, watch whales, pret­ty much just a wildlife cruise……