Poetry as Knowledge in Librarianship

Bharat Mehra is Professor and EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice in the School of Library and Information Studies, College of Communication and Information Sciences, at the University of Alabama, USA.Vanessa Irvin is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Master of Library Science Program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Professions of the College of Education at East Carolina University, USA.

• Introduction—When Water Shapes Stone: Poetry as a Transformative Force in Librarianship; Bharat Mehra and Vanessa IrvinSection One. Poetic Reflections: Identity and Being in LibrarianshipChapter 1. Archival Affect: Understanding Louisville, Kentucky, Through Images and Poems; Emma Beck and Cecilia DurbinChapter 2. Poetic Reflections: Navigating Immigration and Embracing Professional Advocacy; Veronica FuChapter 3. Elusivity: A Librarian's Praxis of Memory and Meaning; Vanessa IrvinChapter 4. The Cost of Information Consumption Convenience; Michelle E. JonesChapter 5. Library Verse: Poetic Reflections on Identity and Advocacy in LIS; Hana KimChapter 6. “Diving into the Wreck”: On Archiving and Queer Becoming; Caitlin MatheisChapter 7. Audre Lorde, Parable of the Sower and the Poet-Librarian: Ensuring Survival Through Community, Art, and Shared Knowledge; Princess Zuri McCannChapter 8. “If Life Gives You Bananas, Make Mango Shake”: Poetry to Survive, Resist, Empower, and Transform; Bharat MehraChapter 9. Dudley Randall: Librarian, Poet, Publisher, and Poet-Laureate; Wendy MooreChapter 10. Annotations: Five Books that Made Me; Jasmyne RayChapter 11. WIP: A Work in Progress or a Creative Endeavour that Has Stalled; Rebecca ShawChapter 12. Reading in the Stacks: Raising Poet-Librarians in The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo; Jessica Shannon SmithChapter 13. ‘O Time thy Pyramids’: Cacophonies, Farragoes, and Incoherencies in Librarianship and Creative Praxis; Christine WaldeSection Two. Poetic Research: Discourse and Becoming in LibrarianshipChapter 14. Poets in the Library: Teenagers as Creators of Poetry; Jennifer Bartell BoykinChapter 15. Dwell in Possibility: Using Poetic Inquiry to Reveal the Relational Wellbeing Potential of Shared Reading; Alison BrownChapter 16. Poet-in-Residence and Productive Frictions; Tommy Vinh BuiChapter 17. Enoch Soames: From Max Beerbohm’s Imagination to the British Library; Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini Hayashi and Gabriel José Innocentini HayashiChapter 18. Connecting Infodemesnes by Poetic Osmosis; K. LaneChapter 19. Turning Words into Wisdom: Libraries’ Creative Power for Adapting and Thriving in Different Times; Susan McLaineChapter 20. Poetic Explorations of Identity Through Education and A/R/Tography: Automatic Writing as a Tool for Research and Visual Artistic Creation; Teresa Colomina Molina and David López-RuizChapter 21. Healing Through Heritage: Personal Cultural Identity as the Daughter of Immigrants; Vanessa ReyesChapter 22. Exploring Practitioner-Researcher Identity: A Personal Narrative Inquiry Through Poetry and Metaphor; Rebecca ScottChapter 23. Children’s Poetry: A Rich, Untapped Genre for Library Instruction; Sylvia G. TagChapter 24. Poetry as a Strong Document; Tessa WithornSection Three. Poetic Knowledge: Inquiry and Praxis in LibrarianshipChapter 25. A Very, Very Particular Library - A Conceptual Kaleidoscope: Between the Creation Laboratory and the Research Labyrinth; Diego AldasoroChapter 26. Poetry as Inquiry: Reflecting on Power and Knowledge in LIS; Sandy YangChapter 27. The Shape of Not Knowing: Intellectual Sympathy, Negative Capability, and Poetic Knowledge in Librarianship; Hailey Siracky