Poetry today by E. A. Midnight “how much of love is seeing someone else’s mental illness as a quirk / and not failure, not a dent, not something that must be fixed” librelit.com/2025/09/20/m...

FEATURING: 🧠https://librelit.com/read/year-one/archive/ Courtney LeBlanc Stacey C. Johnson Lydia Rae Bush Chrissy Stegman David Cazden Merlin Flower Sam Floyd Claude Clayton Smith Joshua Kulseth Liz DiGregorio

Poetry today by Eric Lawson “Too hot for clothes, too alone to care.” librelit.com/2025/08/20/e...

“I will say my goodbyes to each room. Remember our newborn snuggling on a sheepskin rug, hear the creaking herringbone parquet floors, relive my postpartum vigil at the bedroom window, the slow-motion clouds.” Delighted to see my piece In Between in @librelit.bsky.social

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Fictions today by @yallaalia.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/08/16/a...

FEATURING: MICHELLE MCMILLAN-HOLIFIELD NA ASHELEY ASHITEY LAUREN MCGOVERN JENNIFER JONES EMMA ROTH EDWARD MICHAEL SUPRANOWICZ JIANNA HEUER IVAN DE MONBRISON KUSHAL PODDAR TAYLA NADEN librelit.com/read/year-on...

Fictions today by @yallaalia.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/08/16/a...

Fiction today by @ilanamiral.bsky.social “And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.” librelit.com/2025/08/13/i...

Good morning! We’re pleased present a video reading by Ace Boggess for his Issue Three: Cinema piece “How Much Do You Plan to Splurge in the Coming Year?” Link to website: librelit.com/issue-three/... Link to YouTube: youtu.be/VsgWwlCJ9w8?...

Poetry today by Adrienne Marie Barrios: “I learned that you built a wall, but the wall has windows, maybe even a door with hinges I can pry off with my teeth…” librelit.com/2025/08/09/a...

Poetry by Andrew Cox today on the site: “Before the bobcats adopted my mother and made her queen.” librelit.com/2025/08/06/a...

We have an interview out with Victoria Garcia today. librelit.com/2025/07/29/i...

“people i’ve outgrown” by Salem Paige “surely you recognize the migratory patterns of your whims” librelit.com/2025/08/02/s...

I’m looking Change in the eye as I write this and welcoming it over, but before it fully takes effect, we have a job to do. The archives is still underway, and after weekend work, I offer you 10 more pieces by previous contributors, now available on the site. 🧠: librelit.com/read/year-on...

Site updates for anyone who’s bored enough to want them. Updated daily in hopes of getting the word out there. librelit.com/log

Grateful to the early voices of Libre, when the intent was baby-pure, so simplified it was a nice shade of blue and see-through: a gathering of voices on the internet speaking clearly about the private, making public the caliber of pain they couldn’t publish anywhere else.

Reppert writes around forgiveness in restrained language that elevates the art of poetic sparsity. librelit.com/2025/07/23/f...

🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on... FEATURING: KEVIN GRAUKE ERICA DAWSON GARY GROSSMAN V.C. MYERS JAREK JARVIS SAM KERBEL ADRIANNE OLDHAM BRETT STUCKEL SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN LORI D’ANGELO

A.S. Aubrey was kind enough to provide us with a moving photo montage with recorded audio of her performing her piece “Confessions From Your Therapist”. View it on the website and our YouTube channel: librelit.com/2025/07/09/a... youtu.be/a57I-30mW0Q?...

I wrote this piece published by @librelit.bsky.social on the day before the innauguration of someone. It’s called “Winter Poetics,” but is as valid today when the cold steel of politics is pressing up against us. Check it out. While you’re there, read more. librelit.com/2025/07/16/m...

Prose this evening by Michael Hill. Be sure to check out the fantastic video he so kindly recorded for us. @ccprof.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/07/16/m... youtu.be/DAP1yn_fxKE?...

Prose by A.S. Aubrey today: “How to carve the quiet place, its shaky walls becoming stronger with repetition until you know your own home?” librelit.com/2025/07/09/a...

Isaac Russo was kind enough to film himself reading Saturday’s TWO KNAVES WALK INTO A BAR. View it on the website and YouTube, here: librelit.com/2025/07/05/i... youtu.be/iIysbofF9yI

Congratulations to LIBRE for their first year in publication! @librelit.bsky.social Honored to be among the first published in LIBRE in September 2024. Best wishes! librelit.com/2025/06/28/l...

Prose today by Isaac Russo: “Whiskey had been a poor substitute for the love of his life, but in the end they burned the same.” librelit.com/2025/07/05/i...

“Chronotherapy” by Lou Dee As the fading calls of machinery /Reach across the city / In its violet afterglow. librelit.com/2025/07/02/l...

🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on... FEATURING: LIZ DEBEER LAURENA NELLIES-ORTIZ SYLVIE MELTZER EWEN GLASS AUSTIN FOSTER JOEL WUKOTICH BRYCE JOHLE CELESTE SCHUELER GARY BLOOM AMRITA MATHUR

🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on... FEATURING: nat raum GREG FREED CLAYRE BENZADÓN KATE LEWINGTON ROBB KUNZ IRWIN FREEMAN LUANNE CASTLE MICHELLE CRISTIANI SEAN ENNIS KATIE BESWICK

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“Sometimes I wonder who would I be without my chemical imbalance” Poetry today by @sarahrubinstein.bsky.social librelit.com/2025/06/25/m...