Jonah Bornstein
Jonah Bornstein is author or co-author of several collections of poetry, most recently Treatise on Emptiness (chapbook; 2009) and Voices from the Siskiyous (chapbook; co-author). Other collections include We are Built of Light and A Path Through Stone (co-author). He received an MFA in Poetry from New York University and moved to Oregon in 1989, where he co-founded the Ashland Writers Conference (1997-2002). His poem "Night Blooming Men" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have most recently been anthologized in September 11, 2001, American Writers Respond (2002); Walking Bridges (2008), and Deer Drink the Moon (2007). He has been the featured poet at readings in New York City (notably La Mama Galeria), California (Beyond Baroque), and Oregon (Southern Oregon University, Writers On The Edge). He has taught poetry and literature privately for 20 years and at several universities in New York (1983-1989) and Southern Oregon University (2001-2007). He currently teaches and edits poetry privately and works as a graphic designer. He lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife, the painter Rebecca Gabriel.
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"We each carry lines of poetry with us. Words that others have written float back to us and stay with us, indelibly. We clutch these "life lines" like totems, repeat them as mantras, and summon them for comfort and laughter."
-Academy of American Poets
