Please Do Not Remove

by Angela Palm (Editor), Gary Margolis, Rob Friesel

Through twenty works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction inspired by old library checkout cards, Please Do Not Remove anthologizes Vermont's rich literary culture through the voices of established and emerging Vermont writers. Created, curated, and edited by writer Angela Palm, the book celebrates library ephemera and a love of literature. Inspired by libraries, librarians, or antiquated signatures and book titles on checkout cards, Vermont writers pen characters, prose, poems, and plot lines in celebration of reading, books, and public libraries. Nick Adams has carefully photographed the checkout cards shown therein. Contributors include Gary Margolis, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Jericho Parms, Karin Gottshall, Tim Brookes, Daniel Lusk, Lene Gary, Erika Nichols, Penelope Cray, Rob Friesel, Shelagh Connor Shapiro, Kate Sykes, Niels Rinehart, Malisa Garlieb, David Dillon, Hillary Read, Tamra Higgins, Mary Jane Dickerson, and Emily Arnason Casey.

Genres: Short Stories, Poetry

200 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2014

About the author

Angela Palm is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here (Graywolf Press) and winner of the 2015 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. She edited the anthology featuring work by Vermont writers, Please Do Not Remove (Wind Ridge Books). Angela's writing has appeared in Ecotone, Brevity, DIAGRAM, Paper Darts, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. Her essay, "The Devolution of Cake," and her story, "Mrs. Greenwood's Jelly," were nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Reviews

[Shelagh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful collection inspired by library cards. Because readers have always been so well served by libraries, the common thread running through these stories and poems touches us all. The collection is beautiful and diverse, and the fact that libraries benefit from the book's profits makes me especially proud and happy to have a story included in it.

[Nat · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting collection of stories and poetry inspired by old library check out cards. My personal favorite is "On Reading: A Meditation" by Mary Jane Dickerson.

[Chris]

interesting

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly interesting collection of short stories and verse, inspired by old library book due date cards.