Two renowned Oregon poets will give readings and discuss their works at the Hermiston Public Library on Wednesday, July 24 at 6:30 p.m.
Steve Dieffenbacher and Jonah Bornstein will appear at the library as part of an Eastern Oregon tour sponsored by Libraries of Eastern Oregon (LEO).
Dieffenbacher has lived in Oregon’s Rogue Valley since 1989. His poem, Emptiness won the 2010 poetry prize sponsored by Cloudbank Magazine. He has been published in numerous regional journals and in the just-published anthology What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems, edited by Kathryn Ridall.
His poems also are included in Deer Drink the Moon, an anthology of Oregon poetry published by Ooligan Press at Portland State University; in the chapbooks Universe of the Unsaid and At the Boundary, in the anthology Intricate Homeland: Collected Writings from the Klamath Siskiyou, and in A Path Through Stone, a cycle of poems that includes work by Bruce Barton, Jonah Bornstein and John Reid.
Dieffenbacher is an editor at the Mail Tribune in Medford, where he writes a monthly column focusing on nature and hiking for the newspaper’s Sunday travel section. He has won various awards for writing, photography, and page design in his more than 35 years as a journalist.
Bornstein is the author and co-author of several collections of poetry, most recently a chapbook, Treatise on Emptiness. His poems have been anthologized in September 11, 2001, American Writers Respond, Walking Bridges, and Deer Drink the Moon, and Fragile Soil among other collections.
His poems have been published in Westwind Review, Jefferson Monthly, Hesperides, among others. He is a Puschcart Prize nominee, winner of two OPA awards, the Coulter Poetry Prize and a New York University Poetry Prize. Bornstein lives in Ashland, Oregon, where he teaches and edits poetry privately.
All ages are welcome to attend the program. For further information, call 567-2882.
