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Urchin to Follow hits bookstore shelves on May 15, 2010!
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News of Me:

My account of Lori Ostlund's hilarious reading at her book launch at Books, Inc. in SF appears on the Georgia Review's blog.
Video of my reading in Berkeley for Lively Words is up! Thanks to host Albert Martinez.
My poem "Guide to Low Standards" appears in the new Los Angeles Review.
Two poems, "Interview with the Rescue Crew" and "Personal," are in the current issue of the Journal.
My review of Connie Voisine's Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream (U. Chicago Press, 2008), a nominee for the LA Times Book Prize, is in the current issue of Puerto del Sol.
"Trial of the Oblique Triangle: Building Permit #78," will appear in the Sacramento News & Review.
My review of Beth Bachmann's Temper will appear in the forthcoming issue of the Georgia Review.
My poem "Who Also Were Killed" will appear in the spring 2010 issue of the New Orleans Review.
My poem "Tracking the Woodcutter" is forthcoming in the Sakura Review.
My essay "Semicolon Slut" will appear in Interrobang?!

News of Mine:

Dorje Jennette's new blog post at Unfolding Now connects mindfulness to finance. Enjoy and prosper!
Valerie Fioravanti's prose workshops are underway, and the next sessions are filling up fast. Reserve your spot now!

Publication Overview and Bio: My poetry collection Urchin to Follow is forthcoming from the National Poetry Review Press in May 2010. My poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in journals such as Puerto del Sol, the Journal, Ninth Letter, Coconut, Court Green, Memorious, and the Georgia Review. Originally from Seattle, I earned my MFA from New Mexico State University and my PhD from the University of Georgia. I live in Davis, California, with my husband, psychologist Dorje Jennette. For a complete list of publications, please visit my Editing Services page and scroll down to view my CV.

Editing Overview: I copyedit poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, craft-of-writing books, and humanities scholarship for university presses, including the University of Georgia Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, and Fordham University Press. Recent editing projects include Alicia Ostriker's Book of Seventy (Pitt), Russell Edson's See Jack (Pitt), Sue William Silverman's Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir (UGA), Jane Stanley's The Rhetoric of Remediation: Negotiating Access to Entitlement and Access to Higher Education (Pitt), and Bruce Rosenstock's Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond (Fordham). For the University of Pittsburgh Press, I am at work on The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights. For the University of Georgia Press, I am at work on Jessica Treadway's fiction collection Please Come Back to Me, a Flannery O'Connor Award winner. For a complete list of edited books, please visit my Editing Services page and scroll down to view my CV.

Poems Online:

Poetry Readings Online:

Lively Words in Berkeley, fall 2009. Thanks to host Albert Martinez.
Sacramento Poetry Center, June 2009. In the Smithy, We Lie Down at Last, The Hornet Year, Interview with the Rescue Crew. Thanks to Frank Graham for hosting and Tim Kahl for filming.

Book Reviews Online:
In Verse

Articles Online:

"What Bilingual Poets Can Do: Re-Visioning English Education for Biliteracy." Coauthored with Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor. English in Education, 42.3 (Fall 2008): 243–252.

Interviews Online:
I Interview Other People

Poet Julia B. Levine, in the December edition (forthcoming) of Poetry Now, the newsletter journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center
Prose writer Albert Martinez, Host of Lively Words, in the October Edition of Poetry Now, the newsletter journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center
Poet Andy Jones, in the September edition of Poetry Now, the newsletter journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center
Poet Hannah Stein, in the July edition of Poetry Now, the newsletter journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center
Fiction Writer Lucy Corin, in the June edition of Poetry Now, the newsletter journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center

Other People Interview Me

With Andy Jones on Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour on KDVS
With Rachel Whalley of Fog to Fire on Emotions in Small Business: "How Do You Feed Your Soul and Also Feed Yourself"?

Professional Affiliations:

Poets & Writers

Dorine Jennette

Poet ~ Editor