Photo and Story by Julie Strand
Cyrille Davidson is a fourth grade student at Pierce Elementary School in Riverwest. She is also part of the Community Learning Center that takes place at Pierce until 5pm. After the regular school day commences, the school becomes a Community Learning Center of (CLC) and students are offered the option to participate in different activities such as African Dance, Chess Club, and Woodland Pattern’s Urban Youth Literary Arts after-school classes.
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.
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