Dorine Jennette

Praise for Urchin to Follow: "What if DorothyParker had been interested in biology? What if Heather McHugh had taken up rock climbing? These are the questions we begin asking as we enter Dorine Jennette’s funny, sly poetic world, inhabited by 'bulge-eyed denizens' and speakers who want to 'make sweetness in the broom closet.' With humor and a searing intelligence, Jennette presents us with her subjects: the natural world and the postmodern condition. If, as Jennette says, the body is 'a bureaucrat commanding a war,' the poems in this collection command a fiesta: a jazzy musical party, stippled with bats, trees, and insects. Each poem is a linguistic piñata that rains its sweet candy down onto the grass at our feet." --Connie Voisine, author of Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream

Author Bio: Dorine Jennette's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in journals such as Verse Daily, Puerto del Sol, the Journal, Ninth Letter, Coconut, Court Green, the Los Angeles Review, the New Orleans Review, and the Georgia Review. Originally from Seattle, she earned her MFA from New Mexico State University and her PhD from the University of Georgia. She lives in Suisun City, California.

Reviews of Urchin to Follow:
"But I Digress . . ." by Kel Munger, Sacramento News and Review
"A Desert Urchin" by Andrew C. Gottlieb, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments

Interview with Jeffrey Callison on Insight,
Capitol Public Radio. May 28, 2010.
(I come on around 24 minutes in to the show, which also features the California budget, bicycle physics, and the band La Descarga.)

Interview with poet Mark Bilbrey, the editors of Straylight, and students at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Spring 2011.
 
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