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Woodland Pattern Book Centers Annual Open House featuring Chuck Stebelton & Laura Sims Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee Open House Sunday, December 4, 12-5pm Poetry Reading - 2pm Chuck Stebelton & Laura Sims FREE TO THE PUBLIC Woodland Patterns Annual Open House is an expression of our gratitude for another year of community support. As always, the open house will feature fresh-baked goodies, tasty beverages, a festive atmosphere, and special book displays. This year's open house will also feature a book release poetry reading by Woodland Patterns own Chuck Stebelton and Madison poet Laura Sims. Please join us. Chuck Stebelton works as Woodland Patterns Literary Program Manager and co-curates the Myopic Poetry Series at Myopic Books in Chicago. He is the author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005) and Precious, an Answer Tag chapbook. Newer work appears in recent issues of Antennae, Jubilat, LVNG, Spoon River Poetry Review, Verse, and Chain 12: Facts. In June, 2005, along with Marcella Durand, Kristin Prevallet, Rich ORussa and Kimberly Lyons, he read his work as part of the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena conference at Adler Planetarium in Chicago; and recently collaborated with Cindy Loehr on Revival, "a cathedral of flame with a pre-recorded oration inside." For more information on his recently released title Circulation Flowers visit http://www.tougherdisguises.com/books.html Laura Sims is the winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize for her collection, Practice, Restraint. She was recently awarded a JUSFC / NEA Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship to spend six months in Japan next year. She has published two chapbooks: Bank Book (Answer Tag Press) and Paperback Book (3rd Bed), and her poems have appeared in the journals First Intensity, How2, 6X6, and 26, among others. She has written book reviews for Boston Review, Jacket, and Rain Taxi, and an overview essay on the work of Diane Williams for The Review of Contemporary Fiction. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches creative writing and composition at Madison Area Technical College and Edgewood College. For more information on Sims recently released title Practice, Restraint visit http://www.fencebooks.com/new_titles.html Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust Street Milwaukee, WI 53212 phone 414.263.5001 woodlandpattern.org
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