Banned Books with ACLU of WI
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee
FREE
Banned Books Event presented by ACLU of WI, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and Wisconsin Center for the Book
Join the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation and Woodland Pattern Book Center on October 14, 2009 for a celebration of beloved banned books. We’ll talk about censorship attempts in and around South East Wisconsin. There will be a short presentation and then we’ll read excerpts from the “hot” books. Event takes place from 7PM to 8:30PM. Reception begins at 6:30PM.
Info: www.woodlandpattern.org or call 414-263-5001
Wisconsin Center for the Book LITERARY BASH
Saturday, April 18, 2009
10:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m.
Grant Elementary School in Wisconsin Rapids
during the Central Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Festival
AUTHORS & SPEAKERS (Auditorium):
10:30 WELCOME & POSTER AWARDS
11:00 JUSTIN ISHERWOOD Farm Kid, Book of Plough & other titles
11:30 MARY BERGIN Hungry for Wisconsin?
NOON MEGAN SCHLIESMAN Nature Books for Youth
12:30 MARY LOU SANTOVEC Wisconsin Gardens & Landscapes
1:00 JIM POLLOCK A Whole Different Animal
1:30 TOM MONTAG The Big Book of Ben Zen & other titles
2:00 WPR Anchor/Reporter GLEN MOBERG
2:30 NATURE POETRY
3:00 Letters About Literature AWARDS
www.prairiechickenfestival.org
Lisa Fishman at Wisconsin Book Festival
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Frederic March Play Circle Theater
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-0234
http://www.uniontheater.wisc.edu
Lisa Fishman’s fourth book, F L O W E R C A R T, is forthcoming on Ahsahta Press; she is also the author of The Happiness Experiment (2007) and Dear, Read (2002, 2006), both from Ahsahta, and The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues, 1996). She has recently published two chapbooks, KabbaLoom (Wyrd Press, Boulder) and The Holy Spirit does not deal in synonimes, notes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning transcribed from the margins of her Greek and Hebrew Bibles (Parcel Chapbooks, Denver) and has new work in recent or forthcoming issues of Conduit, A Public Space, 1913: a journal of forms, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. With Richard Meier and Henry Morren and the assistance of Wave Books, she helps manage summer residencies for poets at Poetry/Farm, an organic farm in southern Wisconsin.
http://wisconsinbookfestival.org/presenters/author.php?author_id=654
