Madtown Poetry Open Mic w/ Featured Reader: Franklin K.R. Cline

Art in the cafe...

Members of Red Pine


"Permutations of Red Pine"


September 2026



A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Friday, March 1, 2019
8:00 pm

Featured reader: Franklin K.R. Cline is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a Distinguished Dissertation Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a member of Woodland Pattern Book Center’s Board of Directors. His first book, So What, was published in 2017 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.

Sign up for the open mic starts at 7:30. The reading starts at 8 with the featured reader.

Hosted by Kelli Miner

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