Making a Poem out of Dionysus, Pneumatology, Equanimous, and Boobearalicious: 

The 16th Annual Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon & Benefit 

by Julie Strand

On Saturday January 30th, 2010 from 10am-1am Woodland Pattern will host it’s 16th Annual Poetry Marathon and Benefit. This year’s Marathon is EXTRA special because it will be the Kick-Off Event to launch Woodland Pattern’s 30th year! 

NEW YEAR’S EVE FESTIVITIES

compiled by Tess Reiss

Kids and grown ups can ring in the new decade right here in the neighborhood (or nearby) with ice skating, fireworks, and parties under the silvery full moon. Make the rounds on New Year’s Eve and then bring your camera to the Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day at Bradford Beach!

RED ARROW PARK 

920 N Water St

Ice Skating 11AM-1AM. Festivities & Fireworks at midnight.

 by Anne Kingsbury

For the Dishwashers

All things are one

If heart delight

in working, if hands

join the world right.

Wendell Berry, 1982

after noon meal and 

before Woodland Pattern reading

by Karl Gartung

A talk at the Chicago Poetry Project, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 

Preface: I’ll write here on what I've learned, or more accurately what I am learning since any state of knowledge for me is strictly provisional. My motto: I can't share what I know, so must share what I am learning. I am skeptical even of that.