title: Poetry, Politics and Passion: memoir, poems, personal essays
author: Jennie Orvino
description: Jennie Orvino has been writing since she got a diary with a lock and key at age 14. Her poems have been published at cleansheets.com, slowtrains.com, in Redwood Coast Review, Present at the Creation, Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology, West County Reader, Squaw Valley Writers Anthology, Cloud View Poets, North Bay Progressive, Eclipse, The Dickens, Poets Against War, Burning Bush Publications, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Sacramento News and Review, From Porn to Poetry, and Good Vibrations Sex Toy Tales. Her spoken word CD, Make Love Not War explores the body erotic and the body politic in collaboration with some of San Francisco Bay Areas most accomplished musicians. This CD was on the Grammy ballot (Category 74) for Best Spoken Word Album in 2002. In 2003, Clamshell Press of Santa Rosa published Jennie Orvino: A Sampler of Her Poems, 12th in a series of hand-set, letterpress limited editions. She is also a feature writer who has been published in The Bohemian and other Sonoma County newspapers. Her radio credentials include a two-year stint at KRCB FM 91 as a producer and on-air interviewer for the literary salon, Word by Word and the poetry programs Come, Said the Muse and Poetic License. Awards include: 1st prize poetry - Copperfields The Dickens; second prize in Java Jive contest (North Bay Bohemian); and The Don L. Emblen Award from Santa Rosa Junior College for achievement and promise in creative writing. Her spoken word performances as a featured reader include: Live Wire Literary Salon, Harbin Hot Springs, Petaluma Poetry Walk, Sonoma County Book Festival, Health and Harmony Festival, Coffee Catz (CD release party in 2002; Nothin to Hide 3-woman show with Cat Austin and Fran Carbonaro in 1999), Copperfields Books, Northlight Books, River Reader, Healdsburg Literary Arts Council Third Sunday, Center Literary Caf, Snake River Poetry Circle, Synergy Caf &amp; Lounge (Culver City), Womens Work Venue 9 (San Francisco). She has also participated in various group readings. among the locations are: Levin &amp; Co. Books, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show, Russian River Writers Guild and numerous poetry slams. Jennie Orvino was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, lived in Milwaukee for 10 years after college and then moved to Sonoma County California in 1978.
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  By Margaret Atwood  
    
  
  
  FICTION  
  The Edible Woman  
  Surfacing  
  Lady Oracle  
  Dancing Girls  
  Life Before Man  
  Bodily Harm  
  Murder in the Dark  
  Bluebeard’s Egg  
  The Handmaid’s Tale  
  Cat’s Eye  
  Wilderness Tips  
  Good Bones  
  The Robber Bride  
  Alias Grace  
  The Blind Assassin  
  Good Bones and Simple Murders  
  Oryx and Crake  
  The Penelopiad  
  The Tent  
  Moral Disorder  
  The Year of the Flood
  
  
  POETRY  
  Double Persephone  
  The Circle Game  
  The Animals in That Country  
  The Journals of Susanna Moodie  
  Procedures for Underground  
  Power Politics  
  You Are Happy  
  Selected Poems  
  Two-Headed Poems  
  True Stories  
  Interlunar  
  Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976–1986  
  Morning in the Burned House  
  The Door
  
  
  NONFICTION  
  Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature  
  Days of the Rebels 1815–1840  
  Second Words  
  Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature  
  Two Solicitudes: Conversations _(with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu)_  
  Negotiatin