Jane Holwerda
HPPR Radio Readers Book LeaderAfter 21 years at Dodge City Community College, Dr. Jane Holwerda retired in May, having served as English faculty, Humanities Division Chair, Dean of Instruction and most recently Vice President of Academic Affairs. In addition to her academic and administrative work, Holwerda has shared her passion for reading with Radio Readers Book Club having served as a Book Leader in the inaugural 2016 Spring Read.
A native of Lindsborg, Kan., Jane holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Marymount College in Kansas, a Master of Arts in English, with high honors and a doctorate in American Studies with distinction both from Saint Louis University.
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Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda kickstarting summer by reading down a stack of books. One I recommend is a 2023 memoir. A commonplace about memoirs is that the better ones tell extraordinary tales of ordinary people. This seems an apt description of Lara Love Hardin, and her memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love. -
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda and – believe it or not –it’s time to wrap up this most incredible of Spring Reads, “Water, Water, Neverwhere.” -
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, thinking about Plainwater, a multilayered work from early in the career of Anne Carson, a writer pegged as a contender for a Nobel. -
Hello, Radio Readers! Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, here to reflect on Anne Carson’s Plainwater, an eclectic collection of essays and poetry – and just in time for April, National Poetry Month. -
Through essay and poetry, Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers varied lecturettes. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy. -
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, KS, here to weigh in on Nicholas Soutter’s novel, The Water Thief, the third work of our Spring 2024 book series, “Water, Water, Neverwhere.” -
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, and I’ve been reading and thinking about Elmer Kelton’s novel The Time It Never Rained, set in 1950’s West Texas. Kelton himself grew up on a ranch near Midland, Texas but didn’t feel he was suited for ranch life. -
Hello and welcome, Radio Readers to 2024! For this year’s Spring Read we’ve lined up some great reads on the subject of water. -
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. I’ve been sitting with the words and imagery of Ada Limon, a poet who calls both Sonoma, California and Lexington, Kentucky home. The Hurting Kind is her 6th collection of poetry over 20 years. -
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, enjoying the gestalt of Christopher McDougall’s Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero. A journalist and marathoner, McDougall is a self-described city boy who moved with his family off the grid to Pennsylvania Amish country.
