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Joe Amato Once an Engineer $24.95
Arthur C. Danto Andy Warhol $24.00
Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein Girl Drive $19.95

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Restocks from Godine/Black Sparrow:
Don't have $150 for the Collected Larry Eigner?
Larry Eigner Windows/Walls/Yard/Ways $14.95
Larry Eigner Waters/Places/A Time $12.95
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John Wieners Cultural Affairs in Boston $15.00
John Wieners Selected Poems $15.95
Aram Saroyan Day & Night $16.95
Carl Rakosi Ere-Voice (New Directions) $9.95 (might be the last of these)

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New Arrivals from MIT/Semiotext(e):
The Invisible Committee The Coming Insurrection $12.95
Jean-Luc Henning (trans by Ariana Reines) The Little Black Book of Griselidis Real: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore $14.95
Monica Szewczyk (ed.) Meaning Liam Gillick $24.95
plus new additions in the Documents of Contemporary Art series: Utopias, Situation, Beauty, & Appropriation $24.95 each

Andy Warhol's Soap Opera November 21

Saturday, November 21, 2pm-8pm: Soap Operas ($4)

Woodland Pattern Experimental Film/Video Series

Presented by the UWM Film Department

Andy Warhol's Soap Opera 1973-1975 :

Vivian’s Girls; Phoney; Fight

Woodland Pattern’s gallery space will be converted into a couch potato’s haven for this marathon (5 or so hours) of acting out -- and some kind of fun -- via the platform of the domestic melodrama, featuring many Factory stars in fine form, especially Candy Darling, and in the incredible psychodrama exercise/verbal sparring match Fight, Charles Rydell and Brigid Berlin. Truly the flows of energy in the latter sessions are to be experienced to be believed as Rydell and Berlin impressively invest themselves (attack, modulate, repeat) into this duel for the camera, Rydell, a deliciously unstoppable torrent of complaint and invective; Berlin evasive, vulnerable, giving as good as she gets.

Spend the afternoon! Partake in parts!

Snacks, comfortable seating, entertainment to be provided.

Andy Warhol's Soap Opera 1973-1975 is final program in a season of rarely screened video work from Andy Warhol and his Factory cohorts, curated by Thomas Schur and Carl Bogner. The videos are available thanks to the generous permission of the Andy Warhol Museum (with great thanks to Greg Pierce and Geralyn Huxley.) The series Andy Warhol Video & TV is presented by the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival and the Milwaukee Art Museum and made possible thanks to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Johnson & Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund.

To screen: Vivian's Girls (Edit #2) (30min., 1973); Phoney (Edit #2) (49min.,1973); Fight Test #1 (33min., August 15, 1975); Fight Test #2 (30min., August 23, 1975)

Fight Test #3 (33min., August 28, 1975); Fight Test #4, Tape #1 (30min., August 29, 1975); Fight Test #4, Tape # 2 (30min., August 29, 1975); Fight Test #5, Tape #1 (33min., December 2, 1975); Fight Test #5, Tape #2 (33min., December 2, 1975)

Eileen Myles reading November 14

Saturday, November 14, 7pm: Eileen Myles Reading $8/$7/$6

Woodland Pattern, 720 E. Locust St. Milwaukee, WI 53212

Eileen Myles will be reading from: The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays on Art

Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit—seeing it with a poet's eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her—and our—lives in these contemporary crowds.

Framed by Myles's account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau's Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Ted Berrigan's Sonnets, and flossing.

Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.

Music Marathon and Benefit

"music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without" - Confucius

On August 22, Woodland Pattern (in partnership with 91.7 WMSE) successfully held its first ever Music Marathon and Benefit, to support our Alternating Currents Live Music Series. After eight hours of music and 38 performers, we raised over $2000! Thank you to all of the musicians who performed, our sponsors, and everyone who came out and made the marathon a success!

Summertime

Hello Friends,

We are nearing the end of inventory and boy are we tired!

After two summer poetry camps and counting all the books in the store we decided that we are so tired we should have a packed schedule of events once our doors reopen!

Here is a taste of what is to come, please join us for one or many of the events:)

NOW- Aug. 30 ART EXHIBIT Jeff Clark's Quemadura Design Exhibit
Saturday July 18 2pm Creativity & Aging Anthology Reading & Celebration: Featuring poet-in-residence Jack Collom along with Creativity & Aging workshop students and instructors Aviva Cristy and Joe Radke, at the Loos Room at the Milwaukee Public Library.
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Saturday July 25 1-4pm WORKSHOP Life Writing in Poetry with Judith Harway
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Sunday July 26 2-4pm MUSIC Collective Neurosis with Frank Marquardt, reeds; Carl Raven, drums; Henry Steinfort, amplified cello; Rob Schoenecker, trumpet & Native American flutes
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August
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Saturday August 1 1-5pm WORKSHOP Write Here Write Now: A Journaling Workshop with Chuck Eigen
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Sunday August 9 2pm PERFORMANCE Other Peoples' Poetry with Thomas Gaudynski
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Wednesday August 12 7pm READING New Prose Series with Spencer Dew and Greg Gerke
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Sunday August 16 7pm ALTERNATING CURRENTS MUSIC
The Mallozzi/Zerang/Lonberg-Holm/Rammel Quartet
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Friday August 21 7pm REDLETTER READING & OPEN MIC featuring Luis Valadez
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Saturday August 22 1-9pm FIRST ANNUAL MUSIC MARATHON & BENEFIT
in support of Alternating Currents Live series
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Saturday August 29 1-3pm WORKSHOP August Fun with Form with Peggy Rozga

Small Press Focus: Switchback Books

A Reading & Workshop with the ladies of Switchback
Saturday, May 30
12-4pm Workshop
7pm Reading

Switchback Books is a feminist press publishing poetry by women. Founded in 2006 by a group of students at Columbia College Chicago, Switchback Books publishes two books a year, one of which is the winner of the Gatewood Prize for a first book of poetry by a woman aged 18 through 39.

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Sense & Nonsense: A Poetry Workshop
with Becca Klaver Saturday, May 30, 12-4pm
$40 / $35m - includes the workshop AND a ticket to the 7pm Reading

Through a variety of sensory and nonsensical experiments, in this workshop we will explore our relationships to each of the traditional five senses (especially those we take for granted), consider the additional senses that poets rely on (sixth, seventh, seventeenth), examine synesthesia and other sense-related poetic topics, and indulge in nonsense. Experiments may or may not include flâneuring, blindfolds, taste/smell/touch-tests, and speaking in tongues, or in Stein. Participants will be asked to bring a few simple supplies to aid in the experiments, and will use the material generated to compose one or more poems or short texts by the end of the workshop.

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SwitchBack Books Reading
Featuring Becca Klaver,Brandi Homan & Kathleen Rooney, 7pm



Becca Klaver was born and raised in Milwaukee, attended the University of Southern California (BA) and Columbia College Chicago (MFA), and currently lives in Chicago, where she works and teaches at Columbia. With Brandi Homan and Hanna Andrews, she co-edits the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. Recent work can be found online in No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, and Coconut. Her chapbook, Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape, is available from the greying ghost press.



Brandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman Books, 2008). Her chapbook, Two Kinds of Arson, is available from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago and is editor-in-chief of Switchback Books.



Kathleen Rooney was born in Beckley, West Virginia and raised in the Midwest. Along with Abby Beckel, she is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. She is the author of Reading with Oprah: the Book Club That Changed AmericaThat Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008), a poetry collaboration with Elisa Gabbert, Oneiromance (an epithalamion), which won the the 2007 Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books, and Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (University of Arkansas Press, 2009), an occupational memoir. (University of Arkansas, 2005.

To register for the Workshop call 414-263-5001.
Tickets for the reading are $8 if you are not a workshop participant.

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/

Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
phone 414.263.5001

Elizabeth Willis Workshop & Reading! Saturday May 9th

What's Your Local? with Elizabeth Willis 11-1pm

This workshop will combine workshop and discussion. We will begin by talking about a few poems by Lorine Niedecker, paying particular attention to their sound, their culture, their environment, their combination of world history and the local 'now.' We will look at how these poems travel and what they can reveal in and about the present. These poems will serve in part as a guide to finding our own ways into language, taking into account our biological and political environment, individual experience, overheard language, and other found elements. How can a poem represent—or point you toward—the depth and scope of what you know and experience? What is your sound—and what makes it specifically your own? What belongs to you—and to what do you belong? We'll all write poems and discuss them as a group.

Elizabeth Willis' most recent books of poetry are Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006) and Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003). The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995) was selected for the National Poetry Series. Recently she edited a collection of essays entitled Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place (University of Iowa Press, 2008). She grew up in Eau Claire, WI and now lives in Massachusetts. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

$25 gets you the workshop AND a ticket to the 7pm reading

To register call (414) 263-5001.

For an extended bio and poems visit: http://woodlandpattern.org/poem/elizabeth_willis01.shtml