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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”

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September 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Poetry today by Eric Lawson

“Too hot for clothes, too alone to care.”

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August 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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.”

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August 13, 2025 at 12:17 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/...

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August 10, 2025 at 2:08 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…”

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August 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Poetry by Andrew Cox today on the site:

“Before the bobcats adopted my mother and made her queen.”

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August 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We have an interview out with Victoria Garcia today.

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August 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“people i’ve outgrown” by Salem Paige

“surely you recognize the
migratory patterns of your
whims”

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August 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Reppert writes around forgiveness in restrained language that elevates the art of poetic sparsity.

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July 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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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
Prose this evening by Michael Hill. Be sure to check out the fantastic video he so kindly recorded for us.

@ccprof.bsky.social

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July 16, 2025 at 11:59 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?”

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July 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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:

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July 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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.”

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July 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Chronotherapy” by Lou Dee

As the fading calls of machinery /Reach across the city / In its violet afterglow.

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July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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FEATURING:

LIZ DEBEER
LAURENA NELLIES-ORTIZ
SYLVIE MELTZER
EWEN GLASS
AUSTIN FOSTER
JOEL WUKOTICH
BRYCE JOHLE
CELESTE SCHUELER
GARY BLOOM
AMRITA MATHUR
June 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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FEATURING:

nat raum
GREG FREED
CLAYRE BENZADÓN
KATE LEWINGTON
ROBB KUNZ
IRWIN FREEMAN
LUANNE CASTLE
MICHELLE CRISTIANI
SEAN ENNIS
KATIE BESWICK
June 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“Sometimes I wonder who would I be without my chemical imbalance”

Poetry today by @sarahrubinstein.bsky.social

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June 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
June 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"There's something dark about There's Something About Mary"

by Jer Hayes

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June 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Poetry today by Brannon O’Brennan

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June 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“How to Man: An Appeal for the Quiet Western"

by Lee Keeler

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June 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM