What She Might Think has been home to several essay projects that feature writers and artists from around the world.
- Book Your Stocking - Writers share favorite books as gift suggestions
- Summer Library Series - Essays revolve around childhood libraries and how they formed us
- Pandemic Meditations - Writers give words to the experience of living in the midst of COVID-19.
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Book Your Stocking
A Reading Series
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Holiday Season 2021
Contributors
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Holiday Season 2018
Holiday Season 2017
Contributors
December 3 Kendra Fortmeyer
December 4 Julia Drescher
December 5 Donna Miscolta
December 6 Regi Claire
December 7 Bonnie Brunt
December 8 Shellie Faught
December 9 Ann Tweedy
December 10 Jack Kaulfus
December 11 Michael J. Wolfe
December 3 Kendra Fortmeyer
December 4 Julia Drescher
December 5 Donna Miscolta
December 6 Regi Claire
December 7 Bonnie Brunt
December 8 Shellie Faught
December 9 Ann Tweedy
December 10 Jack Kaulfus
December 11 Michael J. Wolfe
December 12 Michael Noll
December 13 Eva Silverstone
December 14 Rajia Hassib
December 15 Melissa Stephenson
December 16 Tatiana Ryckman
December 17 John Kenny
December 18 Sarah Bartusch
December 19 Barbara Williamson
December 20 Sharma Shields
December 22 Maya Jewell Zeller
December 23 Aileen Keown Vaux
December 24 Henry
December 13 Eva Silverstone
December 14 Rajia Hassib
December 15 Melissa Stephenson
December 16 Tatiana Ryckman
December 17 John Kenny
December 18 Sarah Bartusch
December 19 Barbara Williamson
December 20 Sharma Shields
December 22 Maya Jewell Zeller
December 23 Aileen Keown Vaux
December 24 Henry
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Holiday Season 2017
Contributors
December 1 Erin Pringle
December 2 Tom Noyes
December 3 Sharma Shields
December 4 Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
December 5 Kathleen Callum
December 6 Julia Drescher
December 7 Marilynn S. Olson
December 8 Chelsea Martin
December 9 Ira Gardner
December 10 Michael Noll
December 11 Donna Miscolta
December 12 John Kenny
December 13 Stephanie Noll
December 14 Christie Grimes
December 15 Regi Claire
December 16 Amelia Gray
December 17 Melissa Stephenson
December 18 Michael Martone
December 19 Michael Wolfe
December 20 Ann Tweedy
December 21 Abby Freeland
December 22 Rajia Hassib
December 23 Alvaro Rodriguez
December 24 Maya Jewell Zeller
December 25 Merry Christmas
December 26 April Cypher
December 27 Shawn Vestal
December 28 Polly Buckingham
December 29 Laura Robey
December 30 Barbara Simmons
December 31 Finale
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THE SUMMER LIBRARY SERIES
A somewhat annual series in which writers reflect on their childhood experiences in the library.
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| Children reading in New York Public Library, circa 1920 |
Summer 2018
LIBRARY AUTHORS
- How Many Libraries Can One Childhood Hold? by Azaria Podplesky
- Neighborhood Libraries by Cetywa Powell
- Two Libraries by Lane Falcon
- Library Time by Rachel King
- The Bartholomew County Library by Melissa Stephenson
- The Missing Library by Rajia Hassib
- That Texas Library by Julia Drescher
- by Donna Miscolta
- My First Library by Richard Paolinelli
Summer 2015
LIBRARY AUTHORS
- Scofflaw by Simone Zeltich
- On Libraries and Vans: A Western Washington Pastoral by Maya Jewell Zeller
- Cigarettes and Astrid Lindgren by Regi Claire
- This Library Was Made for You and Me by Liz Rognes
- This Book: One Week by Emilia Rodriguez
- My Dear Library by Ben Cartwright
- Walking to East Branch by Carol Pringle
Summer 2014
LIBRARY AUTHORS
- Two Bookcases by Donald Anderson
- Long Live Literacy! by D.S. Sense
- Card Catalog by Stephanie Noll
- Four Libraries by Michael Martone
- Some Kind of Reader by Tim Greenup
Summer 2012
LIBRARY AUTHORS
- In a Town With No Bookstores by Owen Egerton
- Buildings and the Love of Books by Matthew C. Brennan
- A Kind of Beacon by Jack Kaulfus
- The Library That Delivered by Dan Powell
- A Truant in the Stacks by Laura Ellen Scott
- The Mother of Libraries by TJ Beitelman
- My Regrettable Non-Relationship with Libraries by John Kenny
- All Sorts of Freedom by Juliet E. McKenna
- Library as Locus by Heather Anastasiu
- From Branch to Main and Back by David Hadbawnik
- On Raising an Ontological Architect by kathryn l. pringle
- Then Steinbeck Killed My Pony by Stacey Swann
- Library Days by Stona Fitch
Special thanks to the photographers who gave permission to What She Might Think expressly for this project, and to those photographers who provided their photographs for use under Creative Commons Licensing. Many of the photographers are librarians themselves.
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| Found at the edge of a golf course while walking photo by Erin Pringle |
Pandemic Meditations, A Series
Pandemic Meditations was a series (2020) in which artists from all genres, backgrounds, and locations shared creative work in response to the pandemic.
Navigate directly to the meditation of your choosing by clicking on any of the links below.
September Meditations
- 9/8/20 Felix Morgan: In the Golden Light between Sleep and Awake (journal excerpts)
- 9/10/20 Grace June: Let's Play (poem) and Nights in a Pandemic (photography series)
- 9/15/20 Deidre D.S. SENSE Smith: The Beauty within the Ugly (nf prose poem)
- 9/17/20 Ellen Welcker: Disapproving Corgis (prose piece)
- 9/24/20 Freesia McKee: Crucial Connections (essay)
October Meditations
- 10/01/20 Ira Gardner: In the Garden of the Pandemic (photography and essay)
- 10/08/20 Walter Moore: 6 Months, a Meditation (essay)
- 10/15/20 Bailey Bridgewater: Cutting Back the Dead (photography and journals)
- 10/22/20 Chris La Tray: Eight Nations (essay)
- 10/29/20 Trace Kerr: A Wild Rabbit (essay and poem)
November Meditations
- 11/03/20 Rachel King: The Neighbors (poetry)
- 11/04/20 Farley Egan Green: Now and Then (poetry)
- 11/05/20 Cynthia Pringle: Walking Away (essay)
- 11/15/20 Jade Violeta Antonette: The Expansiveness of a Heart (essay)
- 11/19/20 Regi Claire: Missing in Edinburgh (essay)
- 11/26/20 Neil Elwell: A Pandemic Playlist (songs)
December Meditations
- 12/03/20 Dahveed Bullis: Remnants (short film)
- 12/08/20 Mandy Chapman Orozco: Tea (poem)
- 12/10/20 Azaria Podplesky: Since March 13 (essay)
- 12/15/20 Liz Rognes: The Bleak Midwinter (song)
- 12/18/20 Polly Buckingham: It's Wednesday, November 4th (essay)
January Meditations
- 01/08/21 Robert Tombari: A Scrabble Story (essay)
- 01/14/21 Kate St. Ives: Walking and Dreams (essay)
