November @Woodland Pattern

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1-3PM: A MASTER CLASS WITH KATY LEDERER

Poetic Memoir and Lyrical Nonfiction: A Master Class with Katy Lederer


Saturday, November 15, 2008; 1-3pm ($25 includes ticket to 7pm reading)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

In this workshop, Katy Lederer, author of the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers and a poetry editor at Fence Magazine, will discuss various craft elements of the poetic or lyric memoir, including tone, syntax, point of view, dialogue, and paragraph structure. The focus will be on students' own projects and their development. We will be undertaking several free-writing exercises, so bring paper and pen.

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, forthcoming 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003.

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/workshops/adults.shtml#lederer

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7PM: KATY LEDERER & NOAH ELI GORDON READING


Katy Lederer & Noah Eli Gordon Reading



Saturday, November 15, 2008; 7pm ($8/$7/$6)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008) as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003.

In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human."

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/katy_lederer01.shtml

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six books, including Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.

Noah Eli Gordon's poems take the form of jotted notes in an artist's notebook (I was reminded in particular of Odilon Redon's). Each day one begins anew to weave the web, having moved a step forward (or sometimes backward) since yesterday's attempt. Thus each prose bloc, modified or modulated by the ghostly fragments that interleave them, sharpens the focus by which he "attempt[s] via the unknown to give grammar a purpose." The effort in itself is its own reward, and a prodigal one.
--John Ashbery

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/noah_eli_gordon01.shtml

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2PM: THE NOVEMBER QUARTET The November Quartet

Sunday, November 23, 2008; 2pm ($6/$5)
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

Christopher Burns is a composer of chamber and electro-acoustic music. He is active as a performer, whether improvising with a laptop or creating new versions of electronic classics. Burns teaches composition and music technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Thomas Gaudynski is a composer and improviser of electro-acoustic music as well as an entrepreneurial scholar, writer, educator, and marketing consultant. He has presented his work and the work of others in Milwaukee since the mid-1970s.

Steve Nelson-Raney is a composer/performer active in jazz, contemporary music and free improvisation. His interest as a performer is in the development of language systems for both solo and collaborative contexts.

Hal Rammel designs and builds unique acoustic and amplified musical instruments and plays them in the groups Audiotrope, Raccoons, and the LOST DATA Project.

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/november_quartet.shtml

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WOODLAND PATTERN'S 15th ANNUAL POETRY MARATHON & BENEFIT

Early Marathon Signup!
The date for next year's 15th Annual Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon & Benefit has been set for Saturday, January 31st.

To make sure that everyone who wants to participate in the 2009 Poetry Marathon & Benefit can sign up, we're taking early phone registrations. This year we ask that each marathon reader present five minutes of work—poetry, fiction, prose, performance art, music or any combination—and raise at least $35 in pledges. Individual pledges can be for any amount—ask family, friends, neighbors, your mechanic, and anyone else you encounter regularly to support your art and support Woodland Pattern with a pledge.

Call 414-263-5001 to sign up NOW!

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UPCOMING EVENTS

November:
Sat. 11/15: Poetic Memoir and Lyrical Nonfiction a Master Class with Katy Lederer; 1-3pm
Sat. 11/15: Katy Lederer and Noah Eli Gordon Reading; 7pm
Sun. 11/23: The November Quartet featuring Christopher Burns, Thomas Gaudynski, Steve Nelson-Raney, Hal Rammel; 2pm

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