Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc.

Specialties

Small Press Poetry & Literature

Writing & Art Workshops

Art Gallery

Experimental Film & Video

Avant Garde Music

History

Established in 1979.

Woodland Pattern Book Center was founded as a non-​profit organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Riverwest neighborhood by Anne Kingsbury and Karl Gartung in 1979.

The bookstore houses over 25,000 small press titles. Because we are nonprofit, our inventory decisions aren’t dictated entirely by commercialism. As booksellers and presenters of art and literature, we want people to know that there is more than what you see at your chain book store, more than you are taught in school, more than what is reviewed in the papers. We hope to act as a catalyst, putting readers together with small press literature. Come browse our selection of poetry, chapbooks, fine print materials, broadsides, and multicultural literature. We think you’ll be impressed!

Our space also includes an art gallery where we present exhibitions, artist talks, readings, experimental films, concerts, and writing workshops for adults and children.

We are a 501©(3) tax-​exempt non-​profit organization.

Meet the Manager

Anne K.

Manager

Anne Kingsbury is a lifelong artist and Executive Director of Woodland Pattern Book Center, which she co-​founded in 1979 with her husband, Karl Gartung.

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