Woodland Pattern Book Center
Celebrating the Contemporary Imagination Since 1979

June
Tuesdays and Thursdays
now - July 16
Creativity & Aging Residency with Jack Collom
now
through Aug. 30
Jeff Clark's Quemadura Design Exhibit

July
Saturday
July 25
1-4pm
Life Writing in Poetry with Judith Harway

August
Saturday
August 1
1-5pm
Write Here Write Now: A Journaling Workshop with Chuck Eigen
Saturday
August 22
1-9pm
1st Music Marathon & Benefit
in support of Alternating Currents Live series
Saturday
August 29
1-3pm
August Fun with Form with Peggy Rozga

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    Woodland Pattern programming is made possible through support from... The Helen Bader Foundation, The Brico Fund, The Elizabeth A. Brinn Foundation, The Fund for Poetry, The Gardner Foundation, The Charles D. Jacobus Foundation, The Milwaukee Arts Board, The Faye McBeath Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Wisconsin Arts Board, Milwaukee County, The Community Development Block Grant and individual donors.
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    INTERVIEW:
    Clayton Eshleman discusses César Vallejo, literary translation, and the poet's formation.

    LISTEN:
    Interview on the 2009 Woodland Pattern Marathon with Dasha Kelly, Tia Richardson, and Charles Ries
    by Bonnie North of WUWM Lake Effect
    broadcast January 30, 2009.

    Interview on the 2008 Woodland Pattern Marathon Interview with Jackie Lalley
    by Mitch Teich of WUWM Lake Effect
    broadcast January 25, 2008.

    Interview with Ron Padgett
    by Bonnie North of WUWM Lake Effect
    broadcast May 9, 2007.

    Linh Dinh's reading [42MB]
    at Woodland Pattern,
    September 24, 2005.
     
    Closed for inventory

    July 4 - July 20

    WORKSHOP

    Judith Harway
    Life Writing in Poetry

    Saturday, July 25
    1-4pm
    Judith Harway
    Judith Harway



    Chuck Eigen
    Chuck Eigen
    WORKSHOP

    Chuck Eigen
    Write Here Write Now: A Journaling Workshop

    Saturday, August 1
    1-5pm



    WORKSHOP

    Peggy Rozga
    August Fun with Form

    Saturday, August 29
    1-3pm
    Peggy Rozga
    Peggy Rozga

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    Edible Book Show 2009
    **NEW** Poetry Marathon 2009
    The Shapes of Sound 1997
    Redletter Reading 8/18/06
    25th Anniversary
    Spring 2004 Events
    William Corbett
    Baraka at Woodland Pattern
    Niedecker Centenary Conference

    ALL YOUR BOOK SHOPPING!

    Any time of the year, it's important to remember to shop at Local Independent Book Centers. Here are nine reasons to do all of your book shopping at Woodland Pattern!
    1. We have one of the most remarkable and current poetry selections in the country.
    2. We carry books that can't be found in any other bookstores in the Midwest.
    3. We support small presses. We carry over 20,000 small press titles on our shelves.
    4. We have a broad selection of quality literature. On our shelves, you can find self-published books by emerging writers alongside titles by established authors.
    5. Sure, shopping online you can maybe find what you are looking for, but here you can find books you didn't even know you were looking for.
    6. We are a non-profit. Which means we don't let commercial shelf space dictate our purchasing decisions.
    7. Members of Woodland Pattern receive 10% off purchases, $5 off workshops, and discounts on tickets.
    8. Woodland Pattern supports writers by carrying their books on consignment. In 2008, we paid over $3,700 to over 140 individuals that had books on consignment.
    9. If you can't find it in our store, we can order it for you. Can't think of the right book? Get a gift certificate!
    * Send us YOUR reasons for shopping at Woodland Pattern—we'll put them on the website.

    * Urban Youth Literary Arts Program *
    Young Writers Shine

    * POETRY CAMP 2008 *
    Poems written at poetry camp
    Photos

    Anne Kingsbury Named 2008 Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters

    The Alternating Currents Live series of new music is co-sponsored by WMSE (91.7 FM) and Woodland Pattern and hosted by Hal Rammel. These concerts are broadcast on Alternating Currents the following Sunday evening, 6-9pm, on WMSE-FM. Performers have included Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jaap Blonk, Robin Holcomb, and Pauline Oliveros.

    Experimental Film and Video series is co-sponsored by the UWM Film and Video Department and curated by Carl Bogner. It has featured work by Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage and Joseph Cornell as well as work by local filmmakers Stephanie Barber and Jennifer Montgomery. It is the last Friday of the month, begins at 7pm and costs $4.

    Redletter is a reading series featuring local and regional poets and writers on the third Friday of each month, and is curated by Chuck Stebelton. The program begins at 7 p.m. with an open mic, followed by two featured readers. The cost is $3, or $2 for open mic readers.

    Still Waters Collective A monthly, informal gathering of adult writers (and separate teen meetings) to exercise our pens and test our imagination. New work and new partnerships created each session. All genres welcome.

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