Woodland Pattern Book Center
Poetry for 30 Years and Beyond
Please join us for a discussion with
Woodland Pattern Book Center founders
Anne Kingsbury & Karl Gartung and
literary program
director Chuck Stebleton
Thursday, February 13, 2014, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Department of Special Collections
984 Memorial Library
University of Wisconsin – Madison Libraries
Woodland
Pattern Book Center has been (and continues to be) a literary mainstay in the
Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee. For more than 30 years it has played host
to many poets, writers, and artists, giving them the opportunity to read and exhibit
their work. UW-Madison Libraries recently acquired the Woodland Pattern Book
Center archive. We are honored to preserve and share this institution’s history.
Founders Anne
Kingsbury and Karl Gartung will talk about the genesis and growth, joys and
challenges of Woodland Pattern. Chuck Stebleton, Woodland Pattern’s literary program
director, will join the conversation to talk about past programming and the future
of Woodland Pattern.
A large
exhibit, “Woodland Pattern Broadsides: Thirty Years of Poets Reading,” is on
display in Special Collections through March 7, 2014. http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/
More information on the acquisition: “UW–Madison Libraries acquire archive of Milwaukee’s Woodland Pattern
Book Center.” http://library.wisc.edu/news/2013/11/07/uw-madison-libraries-acquire-archive-of-milwaukees-woodland-pattern-book-center/
