Michigan Authors for Libraries

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Authors on the Michigan Authors for Libraries list have agreed to provide contact information and a personal statement about the importance of libraries, and they have given FOML permission to use the statement on its website or in print.

"As a lyric, classic, humanist poet and film historian, I had my early inspiration (born July 1944) in books and magazines at home - and in libraries! Besides "required" school books, there were many surprises at public libraries - Agee on Film; theatre annuals; Proust; bound volumes of Time from the 1940's; the New York edition of Henry James; the novels and stories of John O'Hara - and many more! Long live libraries!"

- L. E. Ward
P. O. Box 107
Iron River, MI 49935-0107
(906) 265-3253

"Where else but in our public library / can we indulge our curiosities, / imagination dancing in the round, / as one notion chases after others?"

- Excerpt from To Be Among These Elegant Voices, poem by Thomas Lynch
Milford, MI
thoslynch@aol.com

"Libraries are more relevant and essential than ever. A good library is a focal point of a community, not only providing a host of information but serving as a portal to the whole world."

- Greg Kowalski
Hamtramck, MI
gkowalski@ameritech.net

"I have used several libraries in Wayne and Oakland Counties and learned how to use a computer at a library in Destin, Florida. They have been and are a vital resource in my life."

- Charlotte Cavanary
Hamtramck, MI
strictlyweaver@aol.com

"Most of us enter a public library moved by a sense of curiosity; whatever we find there, we are reluctant to leave. I think of the library as a place of respite, a gentle bastion where reflection, inquiry, and renewal are still blessedly possible."

- John Harrison Smolens
Northern Michigan University
237 Gries Hall
Marquette, MI 49855
906-227-1796

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