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Sunday
May 11
2pm
Laptop & Lapsteel with Thomas Gaudynski & Christopher Burns, digital and analog duos
Wednesday
May 14
7pm
Riverwest Co-op presents
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
Friday
May 16
7pm
Amaud Jamaul Johnson preceded by open mic
Saturday
May 17
1-4pm
Humor is Spoken Here: How to Write a Funny Poem with Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Saturday
May 17
5-8pm
Special Bitchcraft Event celebrating Bitch Magazine's Feminist Response to Pop Culture
Sunday
May 18
2pm
Susan Engberg
Sunday
May 25
7pm
Alternating Currents Live: The Chicago Luzern Exchange, the Chicago-Switzerland connection
Friday
May 30
7pm
Experimental Film & Video presents Athleticism vs. Aestheticism - Multiple Artists
Saturday
May 31
5-9pm
Opening Reception:
Devotion to Thread.
Guest curator:
Faythe Levine.
Featuring fiber artists:
Chris Niver, Diem Chau, Emily Eibel, Jenny Hart, Kate Bingman-Burt, Kristin Loffer Theiss, Lisa Solomon, Merrliee Challis, Orly Cogan, Pippi Zornoza, Rebecca Schoenecker, Shannon Rankin, Steve Macdonald, Xander Marro, Melissa Woods

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Featured Readings: $8 general, $7 students and seniors, $6 members
Redletter Readings: $3 general, $2 open mic readers
Experimental Film & Video: $2.
Workshops: See Workshop page.

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(Always needed)

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  • Bookstore Assistant: reshelving & restocking books.
  • Bulk Mailing Assistant: Help label newsletters & drive to bulk mail.
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    Laptop & Lapsteel PERFORMANCE

    Laptop & Lapsteel

    Thomas Gaudynski
    and Christopher Burns


    Sunday, May 11, 2pm



    Maurice Kilwein Guevara
    Maurice Kilwein Guevara
    WORKSHOP
    Humor is Spoken Here:
    How to Write a Funny Poem

    May 17, 1-4pm

    Featured
    Photos:
    **NEW** Poetry Marathon 2008
    Redletter Reading 8/18/06
    25th Anniversary
    Spring 2004 Events
    William Corbett
    Poetry Marathon 2004
    Baraka at Woodland Pattern
    Niedecker Centenary Conference

    * POETRY CAMP 2007 *
    Poems written at poetry camp
    Photos

    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 7 P.M. and costs $2.

    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.

    GIFT CERTIFICATES SOLD YEAR ROUND

    INTERVIEW:
    Clayton Eshleman discusses César Vallejo, literary translation, and the poet's formation.

    LISTEN:
    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.

    AN INVITATION
    Community Reviews
    These reviewers bought the book at Woodland Pattern.


    Support

    Woodland Pattern events are supported by the Wisconsin Arts Board, Milwaukee County, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Meyer and Norma Ragir Foundation, The Brico Fund, The Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation, Marshall & Ilsley Foundation and individual donors.
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