Inlandia: A Literary Journey
Librarians & Libraries Themed Issue
Summer 2023 Volume 14
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Librarians & Libraries Issue: An Introduction
Victoria Waddle, Issue Editor, Borrowing Empathy: The Case for School Libraries
For this special issue, we are delighted to feature work on any and all topics by librarians past and present.
Poetry
Roger Camp, International Color Chart
Lisa Eve Cheby, Boundaries Are Expressions of Love ◻️ We are not your clickbait ◻️ Planet X ◻️ Love in Covid: The Booster
Stacie Eirich, While Sitting Outside on my Lunch Break on a Tuesday 🎤 ◻️ Motions of Tenderness 🎤
Julie Fredericksen, Library Page, 1979
Karen Helman, Evangelism
Diane Hueter, Summer Music 🎤 ◻️ Selkie 🎤 ◻️ The Ogre’s Aged Dog Dreams of Its First Master 🎤
Alan Keith, Too Careful
Melissa Mutrux, Neurocytoma ◻️ Piano
Christine Poreba, Interruptions ◻️ I’m sorry, I can’t help you
Nonfiction
Allen Callaci, What It’s Like To Be a Librarian
Cherie Rouse, Detours and Off-Ramps along the Path to Wisdom Winding through the College Library
Brent Singleton, Three African Muslims in New York
Dominique McCafferty Snapp, Finding Sanctuary in Books
Fiction
Mark Smith, Finding Horner 🎤
Jill Vassilakos-Long, One Last Chapter
Jana Waitman, Becky, Angel of Death
Art
Hayden Birkett, Stars in Their Eyes
Thomas Riesner, Desperation
Brent Singleton, Storm over Pfau Library ◻️ Bricks, Water, Trees, Sky ◻️ An Eclipse of Sorts
The following nonlibrarian contributors have focused their creative attention on the librarians & libraries theme.
Poetry
Ned Balbo, Rare Book and Reader 🎤 ◻️ Ex Libris Lux
Ravichandra Chittampalli, The Librarian 🎤
liz gonzález, The Summer Before 9th Grade
Eva Heisler, In the Lethe Branch Library, Eurydice Smells Burning Rubber ◻️ Checking Out Time at the Lethe Branch Library Annex
Paul Hostovsky, Hold at the Circulation Desk
James B. Nicola, John Gould Fletcher 🎤 ◻️ Library 🎤
Jane Satterfield, Autobiographia Literaria ◻️ Discarded Books at Flood Tide ◻️ Volumes 🎤
Derek R. Smith, Bookish 🎤
Tanya Thamkruphat, Scavenger Hunt at the Library 🎤
Aruni Wijesinghe, Getting Lost at the William O. Schaefer Elementary School Library
Mark L. Williams, Haiku I 🎤 ◻️ Haiku III 🎤
Nonfiction
Maggie Nerz Iribarne, With Affectionate Best Wishes 🎤
Juanita E. Mantz, Nancy Drew and Me 🎤
Aruni Wijesinghe, Old Joe
Fiction
Brett Beach, Where’s Papa Going with That Axe?
Art
Ann Calandro, cover artist, Words Take Wing
Willy Conley, The Palms of Rosenberg Library (formerly Galveston Mercantile Library)
Reineke Hollander, Encyclopedia of Mental States A–Z (illustrated with foldout maps)
Aruni Wijesinghe, A Catalog of Angels
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