Woodland Pattern Book Center
  • Address 720 East Locust Street | Milwaukee, WI 53212
  • Phone 414.263.5001
  • Hours Tue-Fri 11-8pm | Sat-Sun 12-5pm | Closed Mon
  • Hours Tue-Fri 11-8pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm, Closed Mon
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readings & workshops
April 4

Virtual Poetry Reading: Mónica de la Torre + José Felipe Alvergue

readings & workshops
April 4

Virtual Workshop with Mónica de la Torre

readings & workshops
April 10

Virtual Poetry Reading: Marilyn Chin

film & video
April 17

Virtual Film Screening: The Collection

readings & workshops
April 19 - May 10

Intergenerational Self-Collaboration: A Multi-Arts Workshop with Paul McComas

readings & workshops
April 24

Virtual Poetry Reading: Krystal Languell + Jennifer Nelson + Ae Hee Lee

film & video
April 25

Virtual Film Screening: Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker 

readings & workshops
April 29

Virtual Poetry Reading: Raquel Salas Rivera + Lara Mimosa Montes

Featured Upcoming Events

Virtual Poetry Reading: Mónica de la Torre + José Felipe Alvergue

Saturday, April 4
7:00pm, $Give What You Can

Please join us for a reading by Mónica de la Torre & José Felipe Alvergue! ​This reading will take place online via Zoom. Just click on the link below to attend and you'll be admitted into a "waiting room" and then invited in for the reading. During events you'll hear only from the poets and our Programming Director Mike Wendt. Your video and audio will be muted, but after each performance we'll open things up for discussion. If you would rather…

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Virtual Workshop with Mónica de la Torre

Saturday, April 4
2:00pm, $35 General | $30 Members

If Lines Are Light Rays: Experiments with Translation with Mónica de la Torre! This workshop session will take place online via Zoom. Participants will receive instructions for access when they register for the workshop. SAT. April 4 | 2—5 PM CDT | $35 General — $30 Member | Scholarships available. This class is now full! I hope you'll join us for Mónica de la Torre's reading with José Felipe Alvergue. The reading will take place via Zoom on Saturday, April 4 at 7:00 CDT.  Picture a prism refracting…

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Virtual Poetry Reading: Marilyn Chin

Friday, April 10
7:00pm, $Give What You Can

Please join us for a reading by Marilyn Chin! ​This reading will take place online via Zoom. Just click on the link below to attend and you'll be admitted into a "waiting room" and then invited in for the reading. During events you'll hear only from the poets and our Programming Director Mike Wendt. Your video and audio will be muted, but after each performance we'll open things up for discussion. If you would rather remain unheard and unseen, simply keep…

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Virtual Film Screening: The Collection

Friday, April 17
7:00pm, $Give What You Can

Filmmaker Paul McComas will give a virtual presentation of The Collection, a short film he made in 1983 and then restored/revised/enhanced in 2019. This movie — along with three other, shorter works that he’ll screen beforehand — is an example of Intergenerational Self-Collaboration (IGSC), a process of revisiting and revising an artwork from one’s own past.  The screening will precede a two-session workshop centered on McComas’s concept of IGSC. More information about Intergenerational Self-Collaboration: A Multi-Arts Workshop with Paul McComas here.  Both the screening…

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A Virtual Multi-Arts Workshop with Paul McComas

April 19 - May 10
1:00pm, $100 General | $90 Member

Intergenerational Self-Collaboration: A Multi-Arts Workshop with Paul McComas Sundays, Apr. 19 & May 10 | 1–3:45 PM  Both the screening and the workshop will take place virtually. More details to come. For artists in all media, editing/revision is one thing—well, two—generally occurring within months, weeks, days or even hours of a draft's composition. When that time gap is instead counted in years or even decades, you're dwelling within the distinctive domain of Intergenerational Self-Collaboration. Much as a reader, film goer, music lover, visual-arts…

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Virtual Poetry Reading: Krystal Languell + Jennifer Nelson + Ae Hee Lee

Friday, April 24
7:00pm, $Give What You Can

Krystal Languell, author of Quite Apart (University of Akron Press, 2020), Jennifer Nelson, author of Civilization Makes Me Lonely (Ahsahta Press, 2017), and Ae Hee Lee, poet and Associate Editor at Cream City Review.  ​This reading will take place online via Zoom. Just click on the link below to attend and you'll be admitted into a "waiting room" and then invited in for the reading. During events you'll hear only from the poets and our Programming Director Mike Wendt. Your video…

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Virtual Film Screening: Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker

Saturday, April 25
2:00pm, $Give What You Can

Filmmaker Cathy Cook will present Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, to be followed by a conversation with special guest, David Wilk (2003 – 2009, 73min, 16mm transferred to DV) Details forthcoming on how to attend screenings via our website and social media @woodlandpattern—stay tuned! About Immortal Cupboard: The film is an artistic interpretation, tribute, and film essay on Lorine Niedecker’s life and poetry. Living for years in the solitude of rural Wisconsin, Niedecker (1903-1970), chose what many might see as a lonely path,…

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Virtual Poetry Reading: Raquel Salas Rivera + Lara Mimosa Montes

Wednesday, April 29
7:00pm, $Give What You Can

Raquel Salas Rivera, author of lo terciario/the tertiary, winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry, and Lara Mimosa Montes, author of Thresholes (Coffee House Press, 2020). ​This reading will take place online via Zoom. Just click on the link below to attend and you'll be admitted into a "waiting room" and then invited in for the reading. During events you'll hear only from the poets and our Programming Director Mike Wendt. Your video and audio will be muted,…

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Featured Upcoming Events


readings & workshops
Apr 4 Saturday, April 4
7:00pm, $Give What You Can
Virtual Poetry Reading: Mónica de la Torre + José Felipe Alvergue

Please join us for a reading by Mónica de la Torre & José Felipe Alvergue! ​This reading will take place online…

Read More
readings & workshops
Apr 4 Saturday, April 4
2:00pm, $35 General | $30 Members
Virtual Workshop with Mónica de la Torre

If Lines Are Light Rays: Experiments with Translation with Mónica de la Torre! This workshop session will take place online via…

Read More
readings & workshops
Apr 10 Friday, April 10
7:00pm, $Give What You Can
Virtual Poetry Reading: Marilyn Chin

Please join us for a reading by Marilyn Chin! ​This reading will take place online via Zoom. Just click on the…

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film & video
Apr 17 Friday, April 17
7:00pm, $Give What You Can
Virtual Film Screening: The Collection

Filmmaker Paul McComas will give a virtual presentation of The Collection, a short film he made in 1983 and then…

Read More
readings & workshops
Apr 19 April 19 - May 10
1:00pm, $100 General | $90 Member
A Virtual Multi-Arts Workshop with Paul McComas

Intergenerational Self-Collaboration: A Multi-Arts Workshop with Paul McComas Sundays, Apr. 19 & May 10 | 1–3:45 PM  Both the screening and the…

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readings & workshops
Apr 24 Friday, April 24
7:00pm, $Give What You Can
Virtual Poetry Reading: Krystal Languell + Jennifer Nelson + Ae Hee Lee

Krystal Languell, author of Quite Apart (University of Akron Press, 2020), Jennifer Nelson, author of Civilization Makes Me Lonely (Ahsahta…

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film & video
Apr 25 Saturday, April 25
2:00pm, $Give What You Can
Virtual Film Screening: Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker

Filmmaker Cathy Cook will present Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, to be followed by a conversation with special…

Read More
readings & workshops
Apr 29 Wednesday, April 29
7:00pm, $Give What You Can
Virtual Poetry Reading: Raquel Salas Rivera + Lara Mimosa Montes

Raquel Salas Rivera, author of lo terciario/the tertiary, winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry, and Lara…

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New Arrivals

Small Press Lorine Niedecker in Spain Natalia Carbajosa
  bruise bullet flower Rachel Eliza Griffiths
  from unincorporated territory [lukao] Craig Santos Perez
  Do Not Bring Him Water Caitlin Scarano
  The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures Hal Rammel
  Crawlspace Nikki Wallschlaeger


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bruise bullet flower by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Small Press

bruise bullet flower documents the strength, vulnerability, and beauty of black, brown, and mostly queer-identified individuals living under the daily threat of gun violence in the United States.

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