Writing As Deciphering
Jackie Henrion was the host of the weekly live radio show Songs-Voices-Poems on 88.5 KRFY in Sandpoint, Idaho from 2014 to 2022, until she re-located to St. George, Utah. She established the FB Group of the same name to highlight the diversity of themes during the eight-year run. She is most interested in the way we decipher, construct, and communicate our views of reality. In a world which seems increasingly fractured by diverging views, she strives to discover common roots such as those found in songs and poetry.
Her diverse background as a child of artists in Greenwich Village, absorbing aspects of fine arts, music, philosophy, and poetry, enriched her with an intellectual and inquisitive perspective.
After earning an undergraduate degree in psychology, she put it to work in a twenty year career in male-dominated business which emphasized quantitative and analytic skills, earning an MBA at the University of Puget Sound and an executive position until her retirement from her corporate career in 1995. That same year, a divorce and deep self-examination inspired her to develop a new financial framework she calls a Financial Selfie. This informational tool was deepened by contemplative practices to capture both monetary and non-monetary assets to achieve wholistic wealth.
After retiring from her career as a purchasing professional, Henrion returned to her roots as a singer/songwriter issuing two albums, available on the internet and iTunes, along with a third as yet unpublished. For the next two decades she studied, wrote, published, and performed covers and original songs, becoming an ASCAP artist, only stopping when her voice became unreliable.
Undeterred, she continued her study in poetry and creative writing, earning an MFA at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in 2018. Her first book, Rerooted, was released by Turtle Moon Publishing in 2019. In 2021 she wrote the introduction for Randy Roark's Poet's Apprentice Vol 1, an authoritative recount of his time as Alan Ginsberg's archivist. Tempered by Roark's long career as editor and archivist for the organization Sounds True, the perspective is unique and insightful. She has done close readings for other Naropa alumnae, such as Kirpal Gordon and Jim Cohn.
In 2022, Henrion initiated a project to collect the best of works from the Sandpoint Monday Writers. As a member of the woman's free-writing group for almost fifteen years, she collected, edited and wrote an introduction for the book Sandpointed. Turtle Moon again chose to publish it consistent with their mission of highlighting women's stories.
Recently she has moved to St. George, Utah, where the cinematic topography inspires her writing and poetry projects. 88.5 KRFY continues to re-broadcast Songs-Voices-Poems at 7 p.m. on Sunday evenings from her archive of shows.
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Rerooted
A Weaving of Women
Rerooted is a fictionalized story based on the life of Marie Root. It portrays a woman who escapes a brutal marriage in Michigan via the recently completed Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1908 she arrives at the lakeside logging and mining town of Hope, Idaho. Her survival depends on making choices common to other women in history. Ultimately she seizes the opportunity to rescue the Hotel Hope from a gambling debt, stamping her own brand on its “hospitality services.”
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Author: Contact@jackiehenrion.com
Press: (Click for link)
Giant Steps Press Blog 6/23/16
Sandpoint Reader - At The Root of It All by Lyndsie Keibert 8/22/19
Assembling The Pieces: Review by Shayna Sengstock 11/15/19
Montana/Idaho Senior Independent - Hope In History by Carrie Scozzaro 2/4/20
Song Publication by Bonner County Human Rights Task Force 2021
"You Make The Culture" Newsletter (Substack) by Jackie Henrion 2022