Introduction--When Water Shapes Stone: Poetry as a Transformative Force in Librarianship; Bharat Mehra and Vanessa Irvin Section One. Poetic Reflections: Identity and Being in Librarianship Chapter 1. Archival Affect: Understanding Louisville, Kentucky, Through Images and Poems; Emma Beck and Cecilia Durbin Chapter 2. Poetic Reflections: Navigating Immigration and Embracing Professional Advocacy; Veronica Fu Chapter 3. Elusivity: A Librarian's Praxis of Memory and Meaning; Vanessa Irvin Chapter 4. The Cost of Information Consumption Convenience; Michelle E. Jones Chapter 5. Library Verse: Poetic Reflections on Identity and Advocacy in LIS; Hana Kim Chapter 6.
"Diving into the Wreck": On Archiving and Queer Becoming; Caitlin Matheis Chapter 7. Audre Lorde, Parable of the Sower and the Poet-Librarian: Ensuring Survival Through Community, Art, and Shared Knowledge; Princess Zuri McCann Chapter 8. "If Life Gives You Bananas, Make Mango Shake": Poetry to Survive, Resist, Empower, and Transform; Bharat Mehra Chapter 9. Dudley Randall: Librarian, Poet, Publisher, and Poet-Laureate; Wendy Moore Chapter 10. Annotations: Five Books that Made Me; Jasmyne Ray Chapter 11. WIP: A Work in Progress or a Creative Endeavour that Has Stalled; Rebecca Shaw Chapter 12. Reading in the Stacks: Raising Poet-Librarians in The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo; Jessica Smith Chapter 13. 'O Time Your Pyramids': Cacophonies, Farragoes, and Incoherencies in Librarianship and Creative Praxis; Christine Walde Section Two.
Poetic Research: Discourse and Becoming in Librarianship Chapter 14. Poets in the Library: Teenagers as Creators of Poetry; Jennifer Bartell Boykin Chapter 15. Dwell in Possibility: Using Poetic Inquiry to Reveal the Relational Wellbeing Potential of Shared Reading; Alison Brown Chapter 16. Poet-in-Residence and Productive Frictions; Tommy Vinh Bui Chapter 17. Enoch Soames: From Max Beerbohm's Imagination to the British Library; Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini Hayashi and Gabriel José Innocentini Hayashi Chapter 18. Connecting Infodemesnes by Poetic Osmosis; K. Lane Chapter 19. Turning Words into Wisdom: Libraries' Creative Power for Adapting and Thriving in Different Times; Susan McLaine Chapter 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-Ruiz Chapter 21. Healing Through Heritage: Personal Cultural Identity as the Daughter of Immigrants; Vanessa Reyes Chapter 22. Exploring Practitioner-Researcher Identity: A Personal Narrative Inquiry Through Poetry and Metaphor; Rebecca Scott Chapter 23. Children's Poetry: A Rich, Untapped Genre for Library Instruction; Sylvia G. Tag Chapter 24. Poetry as a Strong Document; Tessa Withorn Section Three. Poetic Knowledge: Inquiry and Praxis in Librarianship Chapter 25. A Very, Very Particular Library - A Conceptual Kaleidoscope: Between the Creation Laboratory and the Research Labyrinth; Diego Aldasoro Chapter 26.
Poetry as Inquiry: Reflecting on Power and Knowledge in LIS; Sandy Yang Chapter 27. The Shape of Not Knowing: Intellectual Sympathy, Negative Capability, and Poetic Knowledge in Librarianship; Hailey Siracky.