Upcoming Events

Dianne is available to feature read, serve on an editor/publisher panel, or to present a workshop, at any event within a four-to-six-hour radius from Elyria, Ohio. Contact her at dborsenik@gmail.com!

ALL EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELED OR POSTPONED DUE TO THE PANDEMIC. BE SAFE OUT THERE, MY FRIENDS. UPDATES WILL BE POSTED.

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April Poet in Residence CANCELED : Interview up at Loganberry's Facebook

Saturday April 11, 2020
12 noon to 4:00 P.M.

Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Blvd.
Cleveland, OH

Dianne Borsenik will serve as Poet-in-Residence, reading her books and answering questions about all things poetry, publishing, editing, and performing.

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Ohioana Book Festival POSTPONED UNTIL 08/29/2020

Saturday April 25, 2020
10:30 A.M. to 5 P.M.

Columbus Metropolitan Library
Main Library
96 S. Grant Ave.
Columbus, OH

Dianne Borsenik will have a table at the Ohioana Book Festival, promoting her book Raga for What Comes Next. Please stop by and say hello!

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Music & Drama Club of Cleveland CANCELED: Rescheduled 03/11/2021

Thursday
May 14, 2020

Details to be announced

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Words & Wine CANCELED: Rescheduled 04/21/2021

Wednesday
May 20, 2020

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Steele Mansion Inn & Gathering Hub
358 Mentor Ave.
Painesville, OH

Dianne Borsenik returns to a favorite east-side poetry series hosted by Margie DeLong, and will share poetry from Raga for What Comes Next, Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed, and the in-progress manuscript, Ice Cubes.

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OPA Poetry Reading at the Ohio State Fair CANCELED

Thursday
July 30, 2020

Dianne Borsenik will feature read new poems, joining other poets from across Ohio_________________________________________________

National Beat Poetry Festival NO NATIONAL BEAT POETRY EVENTS SCHEDULED AT THIS TIME

Friday, Saturday, Sunday
September

New Hartford, CT

Dianne Borsenik will travel to Connecticut to attend the National Beat Poetry Festival--Details to follow.

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The Public Persona

Dianne Borsenik is active in the northern Ohio, Cleveland-area, poetry scene and regional reading circuit, and travels to perform her poetry throughout the Midwest. She is a member of the Ohio Poetry Association, Literary Cleveland, the Haiku Society of America, and the Ohioana Library Association. In 2011, she founded NightBallet Press (where she is M.F.W.I.C.), and has since published over 120 titles for poets across the U.S. In September 2015, she produced BeatStreet Cleveland as part of the National Beat Poetry Festival. Her poetry has been published in hundreds of journals, magazines, anthologies, and more, including Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, The Offbeat, Rosebud, Slipstream, Lilliput Review, bottle rockets, Voices of Cleveland, Poems-For-All, Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, and The Magnetic Poetry® Book of Poetry. Her poetry has also appeared in numerous galleries and projects, including Cleveland Heights Arts Gallery's "Ekphrastacy," the Wick Poetry Center's "Speak Peace - American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children's Paintings," the 2019 Edith Chase Symposium - "Resurrection River," Amy Mothersbaugh's Studio 2091, & S. A. Griffin's cross-country project "The Poetry Bomb." A copy of her haiku chapbook Blue Graffiti (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2011) is in the Decatur Haiku Collection at Millikin University. In 2016, Crisis Chronicles Press published her first full-length collection of poetry, Age of Aquarius, and in January, 2019, Stubborn Mule Press published her second full-length collection, Raga for What Comes Next, which was released at the "We're No Angels" event at the acclaimed cocktail bar Speak of the Devil in Lorain, Ohio. In September of 2019, Stubborn Mule Press published a four-woman anthology, Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed, containing 23 pages of new poetry by Borsenik. She has also performed her poetry with 2 Chefs and a Beat - "Poetic Justice Edition" - at Porco Lounge and Tiki Room in Cleveland, Ohio. Actor Jonathan Frid (Barnabas on television's Dark Shadows) used three of her poems in his one-man touring show Genesis of Evil. Her poem "Let's Get It On" (from her chapbook Thunderclap Amen) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2013 and again in 2014, she won first place in the Best Cleveland Poem Competition. She has taught poetry at Southview Middle School (Lorain, OH), given workshops at Lit Youngstown's Literary Festival, and serves annually as a juror in the Cleveland Institute of Art's Scholastic Writing Awards. In Summer 2015, her poem "Disco" was selected by the Youngstown Summer Festival of the Arts to appear on its reusable tote bags, and Lit Youngstown printed the poem on their tee shirts, which makes her feel like a rock star. She believes in the musicality of language and the originality of expression in poetry, and continues to seek publication in journals, magazines, chapbooks, and anthologies. She is willing to travel for readings, to present workshops pertaining to small press publishing, to serve on panels about editing and publishing, and to participate with her press at independent literary festivals. Contact Dianne at dborsenik@gmail.com.

The Personal Shizzle

Dianne Borsenik was born Dianne Lynn Keith on Wednesday, February 2 (yes, Groundhog's Day), 1955 in Oberlin, Ohio, during a waxing gibbous moon. She is the Zodiac sign Aquarius and the Chinese Zodiac sign the Sheep. In 1959 her parents moved to Elyria, Ohio, about thirty minutes west of Cleveland, along with daughters Dianne and her younger sister. Dianne grew up roaming Cascade Park: a jewel of green trees, Black River, and East and West Falls in the heart of Elyria, and bookstores, wherever she could find them. In 1977 she met James Borsenik, and in 1979, married him. Their honeymoon was made especially exciting by Hurricane David hitting Florida while their car was sitting disabled in a Kissimmee parking lot. She kept her maiden name and added (unhyphenated) Borsenik. People the world over know her by the initials DLKB. James and Dianne have been blessed with several dog-children over the years: Nickolas Wonder, Bahloo, and Dory Kiss Me Quick; she is still grieving her much-beloved Bodhisattva and little Michel-Angelo. In 2020, Speak of the Devil in Lorain, Ohio, created a tasty cocktail and named it "Borsenik's Law" -- ("That which is poured must be consumed.") Favorite Dianne things include Toronto, the Black Hills, Led Zeppelin (emphasis on Robert Plant), steak, lobster, shrimp cocktail, asparagus, Star Trek (emphasis on Leonard Nimoy/Spock), the Monkees (emphasis on Peter Tork), apocalyptic and disaster movies, the Weather Channel, the English Royals, reading (especially biographies, nonfiction), sleeping with the windows open, going barefoot, carnations, honeysuckle, rap music (Snooooooop), riding in a convertible yeah, we're rolling with the top down, strong coffee, sweet tea, Blackstrap Rum, spicy Bloody Marys, Old Fashions made with Old Overholt Rye, the internet, getting her hands dirty growing herbs and flowers, floating in the pool, Tennessee Williams, travel, thunderstorms, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Nine Inch Nails-the Closer album, Andrea Bocelli, Devo, Ravi Shankar, the Beatles, the Doors, Pink Floyd, and of course, poetry.

Dianne Borsenik — Poet, Perfomer, Publisher, Producer

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