Libre
@librelit.bsky.social
A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
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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...
“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...
September 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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...
“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
🧠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
August 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
🧠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
August 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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“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
Delighted to see my piece In Between in @librelit.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“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
Delighted to see my piece In Between in @librelit.bsky.social
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...
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...
Year One Archive – LIBRE
PROSE SALENA CASHA OLIVER CATES Udochukwu Chidera AMY L. EGGERT SCOTT HOLSTAD JACK JENKINS PURBASHA ROY KETI SHEA SALENA CASHA “Her Better Half” OLIVER CATES “Deception of Beauty (or Eclipsed by Rot)”...
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August 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...
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...
August 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Fiction today by @ilanamiral.bsky.social
“And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.”
librelit.com/2025/08/13/i...
“And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.”
librelit.com/2025/08/13/i...
August 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Fiction today by @ilanamiral.bsky.social
“And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.”
librelit.com/2025/08/13/i...
“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?...
Link to website: librelit.com/issue-three/...
Link to YouTube: youtu.be/VsgWwlCJ9w8?...
August 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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?...
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...
“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...
August 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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...
“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...
“Before the bobcats adopted my mother and made her queen.”
librelit.com/2025/08/06/a...
August 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Poetry by Andrew Cox today on the site:
“Before the bobcats adopted my mother and made her queen.”
librelit.com/2025/08/06/a...
“Before the bobcats adopted my mother and made her queen.”
librelit.com/2025/08/06/a...
Reposted by Libre
Incredibly grateful and thrilled to have an interview out with Libre. Thank you so much to the lovely Mary B. Sellers for featuring me!
You should definitely check out the rest of Libre Lit’s publications. They are doing captivating and important work for the mental health and literary community.
You should definitely check out the rest of Libre Lit’s publications. They are doing captivating and important work for the mental health and literary community.
August 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Incredibly grateful and thrilled to have an interview out with Libre. Thank you so much to the lovely Mary B. Sellers for featuring me!
You should definitely check out the rest of Libre Lit’s publications. They are doing captivating and important work for the mental health and literary community.
You should definitely check out the rest of Libre Lit’s publications. They are doing captivating and important work for the mental health and literary community.
August 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“people i’ve outgrown” by Salem Paige
“surely you recognize the
migratory patterns of your
whims”
librelit.com/2025/08/02/s...
“surely you recognize the
migratory patterns of your
whims”
librelit.com/2025/08/02/s...
August 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“people i’ve outgrown” by Salem Paige
“surely you recognize the
migratory patterns of your
whims”
librelit.com/2025/08/02/s...
“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...
🧠: librelit.com/read/year-on...
Year One Archive – LIBRE
PROSE SALENA CASHA OLIVER CATES Udochukwu Chidera AMY L. EGGERT SCOTT HOLSTAD JACK JENKINS PURBASHA ROY KETI SHEA SALENA CASHA “Her Better Half” OLIVER CATES “Deception of Beauty (or Eclipsed by Rot)”...
librelit.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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...
🧠: 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
librelit.com/log
Log – LIBRE
the daily log 7/27/25Today was about additions. August drafts are now complete thanks to teamwork and spare-change time. MB will battle September's tomorrow in sanctioned time for all things only Libr...
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July 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Site updates for anyone who’s bored enough to want them. Updated daily in hopes of getting the word out there.
librelit.com/log
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.
Year One Archive – LIBRE
PROSE SALENA CASHA OLIVER CATES Udochukwu Chidera AMY L. EGGERT SCOTT HOLSTAD JACK JENKINS PURBASHA ROY KETI SHEA SALENA CASHA “Her Better Half” OLIVER CATES “Deception of Beauty (or Eclipsed by Rot)”...
librelit.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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/2025/07/23/f...
July 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Reppert writes around forgiveness in restrained language that elevates the art of poetic sparsity.
librelit.com/2025/07/23/f...
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
FEATURING:
KEVIN GRAUKE
ERICA DAWSON
GARY GROSSMAN
V.C. MYERS
JAREK JARVIS
SAM KERBEL
ADRIANNE OLDHAM
BRETT STUCKEL
SHANNON FROST GREENSTEIN
LORI D’ANGELO
July 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🧠 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
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?...
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youtu.be/a57I-30mW0Q?...
Confessions From Your Therapist – LIBRE
By A.S. Aubrey https://youtu.be/a57I-30mW0QThis morning, I sit safe in my office in the darkened day, sun still, not yet rising, safe from client questions, the pain of being human. But I both long fo...
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July 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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?...
librelit.com/2025/07/09/a...
youtu.be/a57I-30mW0Q?...
Reposted by Libre
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...
Winter Poetics – LIBRE
Thomas Chatterton's "Holiday Afternoon" By Michael Hill https://youtu.be/DAP1yn_fxKE It’s a bitter cold day, so much so that poetry is frozen in my keyboard. I’m supposed to write a poem tonight for g...
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July 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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?...
@ccprof.bsky.social
librelit.com/2025/07/16/m...
youtu.be/DAP1yn_fxKE?...
July 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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?...
@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...
“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...
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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...
“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
librelit.com/2025/07/05/i...
youtu.be/iIysbofF9yI
July 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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
librelit.com/2025/07/05/i...
youtu.be/iIysbofF9yI
Reposted by Libre
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...
@librelit.bsky.social
Honored to be among the first published in LIBRE in September 2024.
Best wishes!
librelit.com/2025/06/28/l...
Catch and release: life lessons from a bad date – LIBRE
By Liz deBeer Grimacing, she eyes the reddish liquid in the shot glass. “What’s this?” “Oyster shooter. A perfect mix of spicy, sweet, and savory.” Her date raises his glass. “Made with tomato juice, ...
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July 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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...
@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...
“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...
July 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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...
“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...