Exhibition: A Homecoming Farewell—Sunday

Closing Reception for Art That Keeps on Singing: Work by Anne Kingsbury: An open house and toast to Anne and her art, and to all the Woodland Patterning that has been done on Locust Street over the years. See you there! View the exhibition here:

We kick off our final weekend of programs on Locust Street with a celebration of Soham Patel’s The Daughter Industry (Nightboat Books), alongside readings from Mauricio Kilwein Guevara and Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Brenda Cárdenas.

1 pm CDT: Bryon Cherry, Siwar Masannat, and Bethany Price—We begin a tremendous final day of programs on Locust Street with three inimitable poets, each of whom have been steady fixtures of Woodland Pattern’s programming and community for many years.

3 pm CDT: Small-Press Appreciation: pitymilk press—For our final installment of Small-Press Appreciation on Locust Street, we could not be happier to feature the fearless and homegrown-in-Riverwest pitymilk press. Join us for readings and conversations with TBA pitymilk authors curated by editors edie roberts and Chelsea Tadeyeske. Small-Press Appreciation is an ongoing series celebrating publishers doing passionate and exemplary cultural work outside the mainstream.

5 pm CDT: Old School “Poetry Marathon” Potluck—Bring a dish, share a dish. We’ll provide utensils, bowls, and plates, and we’ll have some beverages on hand. Crockpots galore and Locust Street lore, in memory of so many Marathons past.

7 pm CDT: Native Writers in the 21st Century—Befittingly, Woodland Pattern’s longest-running reading series will close out this special weekend and represent our final curated program on Locust Street. Please join us for readings by Sherwin Bitsui, Kimberly Blaeser, Franklin K.R. Cline, and Jake Skeets—all returning writers of this series, which has featured more than 100 Indigenous writers—both emerging and established—since 2007.

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