The Library Love Letter Presents: Letters One
POETRY
- Stories Under the Porch – Fran Abrams
- Ode to the Public Library – Fran Abrams
- Scrapbook from the 1930’s – Lark Beltran
- COMBINATION – Alex O. Bleecker
- Reading – R.D. Book
- A LIFE, A LIBRARY – Michael H. Brownstein
- Renewal – Kenneth Chamlee
- Where Has All the Literacy Gone? – William Doreski
- Your Scholarly Beard – William Doreski
- The Electronic Imposter – Paul Downton
- The Museum – Zakiyyah Dzukogi
- My Poetry Journal is Not Quite a Grimoire – Gabby Gilliam
- A Sonnet for the Words – Gabby Gilliam
- At the Library – Madlynn Haber
- Blackbirds and Bookstores – C. T. Holte
- Write One for Me – C. T. Holte
- Consult at the 8th Street Clinic – D. R. James
- Epigraph – D. R. James
- Dear Reader – Mark Kirkbride
- BELL PETTIGREW MUSEUM – Rob Lowe
- BE-MYTHOLOGY – Rob Lowe
- Crossing #4: Near Death in the Maritimes – Karla Linn Merrifield
- Sunday Afternoon at the Washington County Museum – Karla Linn Merrifield
- Litera Scripta Manet – Bruce Meyer
- The Center of the World – Lawrence Miles
- Bookish – Sandra S. Newton
- If You Would Know Me – Sandra S. Newton
- Ambergris – James B. Nicola
- Paper #2 – James B. Nicola
- What I Have Become – James B. Nicola
- Out of Print – Bobby Parrott
- A Teacher’s Library – Mary Redman
- Escape – Eve Rifkah
- Fourth Summer 1959 – Shoshauna Shy
- The trove – Sushma A. Singh
- Museums – John L. Smith
- Hidden Treasure – Elaine Sorrentino
- “Museum Education” – Margaret D. Stetz
- Ode to the Library – Imani Tolliver
- Passing Reference – DJ Tyrer
SHORT STORY / ESSAYS
- Immer! Immer! – Mark Connelly
- Full Circle – John Darling
- Public – Ed Davis
- Banned Books – Doug Dawson
- The Name on the Overdue Book Card – Cynthia Dorfman
- The Lure of the Local Library – Jenny England
- “History is not a burden on the memory, but an illumination of the soul” – Nancy B. Franklin
- My Favorite Place – Kate Levin
- Words and Wisdom – Kate MacDonald
- Who Writes the Story – Mary Ellen Main
- BELLA’S PLACE – Rod Martinez
- Lions – Liz O’Toole Papazian
- Out of the Mouths of Babes – Mary Ann Presman
- She bade me burn her letters. I didn’t. – Robin Hazard Ray
- His Story – Bill Sells
- Words – Betsy Selvam
- The Family of Man – Sherry Shahan
- Notes Concerning La Bibliotheque non Écrite – Phillip T. Stephens
- I Was a Thesaurus Addict – Noelle Sterne
- Thank You For Using Fairfax County Public Library – Sharon J. Wishnow
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