• Jessie van Eerden

  • Nov 22 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Jessie van Eerden

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  • This week we visit Jessie van Eerden in Roanoke, VA. Jessie is a native of Preston County, WV and the author of novels "Glorybound", "My Radio Radio", and 'Call It Horses", and portrait essay collection "The Long Weeping". Her new essay collection "Yoke & Feather" is out now, so go forth and read!

    Jessie has taught for over twenty years in college classrooms and adult literacy programs, and she directed the low-residency MFA writing program of West Virginia Wesleyan College for seven years. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University.

    For more on Jessie: jessievaneerden.com

    Jessie's Books on the Bed:

    The Murmuring Deep by Avivah Gottlied Zornberg

    Barrabas by Par Lagerkvist

    Houskeeping by Marilynne Robinson

    The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day

    Deepstep Come Shining by C.D. Wright

    Rose by Li-Young Lee

    Matt's gifts for Jessie:

    Fire Sermon and A Life by Wright Morris

    Episode timeline:

    0:00 - 6:47 — Intro

    6:48 - 52:35 — Gifts for Jessie, discussing Jessie's life and work

    52:36 - 1:33:09 — Jessie's Books on the Bed
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