Woodland Pattern Book Center

Woodland Pattern Book Center
Founded1979
FounderKarl Gartung
Anne Kingsbury
Karl Young
Type501(c)(3)
Focusliterature, visual art, new and improvised music, experimental film, literary arts education
Location
WebsiteOfficial website

Woodland Pattern Book Center is a nonprofit organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Riverwest neighborhood that is dedicated to the discovery, cultivation, and presentation of poetry and the arts.[1] The organization was founded in 1979 by Karl Gartung, Anne Kingsbury, and Karl Young, and was named after a passage in poet Paul Metcalf's Apalache: "South of Lake Superior, a culture center, the Woodland Pattern, with pottery but without agriculture..."[2]

Founder Anne Kingsbury served as Woodland Pattern's Executive Director until her retirement in March 2018. The organization is currently co-directed by poets Jenny Gropp and Laura Solomon.[3][4]

Woodland Pattern is a founding member of the Poetry Coalition, a national alliance of more than 25 organizations dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.

  1. ^ "West of Lake Michigan, a culture center, a Woodland Pattern". ImagineMKE. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  2. ^ "About Us". Woodland Pattern Book Center. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  3. ^ "New Executive Director(s) Named at Woodland Pattern by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. 2019-09-22. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  4. ^ Luhrssen, David (2017-12-26). "The Changing Face of Woodland Pattern". Shepherd Express. Retrieved 2019-09-22.