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.
Woodland Pattern's gallery space houses regular readings by small press poets and writers, visual art exhibitions, experimental films, and new and improvised music concerts.
Nationally recognized and up-and-coming writers and artists offer workshops and craft talks for adults, and several book and writing groups also meet at the center.
[9][10] Poet Jerome Rothenberg has praised Woodland Pattern's reputation as "national in scope, and I know of no other center - anywhere in the U.S. - that has carried on a more intricate and demanding program in the literary arts".
Laurie Anderson, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Amiri Baraka, Stan Brakhage, William Burroughs, Wanda Coleman, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Myung Mi Kim, Joanne Kyger, Nathaniel Mackey, Eileen Myles, Pauline Oliveros, Evan Parker, Pedro Pietri, Claudia Rankine, Leslie Marmon Silko, Cecilia Vicuna, Anne Waldman, and John Zorn are just a few of the more renowned artists who have performed in the Woodland Pattern gallery over the years.