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7 Thursday, February 4, 2021 GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon Fishtrap Fireside features Wallowa County writers ENTERPRISE — Put a log on the fi re and log on for the Feb. 5 Fishtrap Fireside featuring Gregg Kleiner, Katherine Marrone and Nathan Slinker. Now virtual because of the pan- demic, Fishtrap Fireside is a local monthly reading series designed to feature diverse voices of local and regional writers. Join the 7 p.m. livestream at www.fi shtrap.org or on Fishtrap’s YouTube channel. A recording of the event as well as previous Fire- sides also are available to enjoy. This month’s Fireside is spon- sored by Stewart Jones Designs. MEET THE WRITERS GREGG KLEINER grew up playing in creeks and outside various rural backwaters of Oregon. For sum- mer vacations, his parents took their fi ve children on extended backpacking trips around Oregon. Those trips instilled in him a love of the wilderness and mountains — especially the Wallowas. At age 16, he spent a year as an AFS exchange student in the mountains for northern Thailand, where he lived for a month at a Buddhist monastery. He has traveled widely, with extended stays in Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Ecuador and trips to Myanmar, China and Cuba. He served as the Fishtrap Writer-in-Residence in the winter of 2003, living at the head of the lake with Lori Salus and their two children, teaching at all three high schools and getting to know Wallowa County, which he and Lori now call home. Kleiner is the author of “Where River Turns to Sky,” which was a fi - nalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize and the Oregon Book Award. He has worked as a wildlife bi- ologist, journalist, visiting professor, communications professional and dairy goat farmer. His writing has appeared in Orion, The Oregonian, The Sun, The Saturday Evening Post, Whitefi sh Review, Terrain and elsewhere. KATHERINE MARRONE is a writer, activist and editor of Fishtrap’s community zine, “Circle of Sea- sons.” A new resident of Enterprise, she works as a legal advocate at Safe Harbors where she helps survivors of domestic/sexual vio- lence and stalking seek justice and safety. Katherine spent periods of her childhood in New York City, Italy and Eastern Oregon. Her poems and essays explore gender, human rights and empathy, the meander- ing path of healing, fi nding pockets of joy in the mundane and her F EED THE F ISH Fishtrapper Club members receive a 10% discount on all workshop and program registrations as well as special events. Memberships start at $5 per month and help support all Fishtrap programs. Sign up for an automat- ic monthly contribution and receive, in addition to the discount, a Fishtrap bumper sticker and journal and a regular writing prompt from Fishtrap faculty/instructor/staff. Sign up at www.fi shtrap.org/be-a-fi shtrapper. in Portland, where she facilitated a writing workshop with youth, she realized the transformative power of space: the space to tell one’s story— and the space to trust that someone will listen. obsession with the question: How and who do we love— and why? When Katherine was volunteer- ing at a juvenile detention center NATHAN SLINKER, who grew up in Enterprise, has been a Fish- trap fellow, a semi-fi nalist for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and a fi nalist for New River Press’ Many Voices Prize. Slinker’s poems have recently appeared in Third Coast, Ninth Letter, CutBank, Waxwing, The Greensboro Review and Kenyon Review Online among other jour- nals and magazines. After spending a number of years traveling and living all over the West, Nathan again makes his home in Wallowa County. Make the Hometown Choice! Ask us about home delivery. ELGIN ELECTRIC FREE eBooks and audiobooks Thousands of titles 43 N. 8th Elgin, OR 541-437-2054 AVAILABLE DAILY Noon to midnight Unlimited # of sessions at NO CHARGE! It’s PRE-PAID with your taxes. Access with your Baker County Library Card from www.bakerlib.org/kids-teens Explore the ONLINE LIBRARY at www.bakerlib.org 541.523.6419 info@bakerlib.org
