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We’re all walking around in dreams on a daily basis. Read our poets below. We’re proud of them.

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It fails us a good deal, too, and as I’m up past midnight working on these, I wonder whether that’s for our own benefit in the long run. Having access to the complete story of ourselves would come at some great, dear cost to the crucial cushioning of delusion we take for granted as our everyday.

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10 more pieces by poets we’ve had the honor of previously hosting. Memory’s weird and flexible and holds time in its tissues, in case anyone’s out there looking for the source of the stuff.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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

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

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @handle.invalid · 16/08/2025

“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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Months lapsed make mild critique more interesting to look at. I offer you 10 more previously published pieces from our archives today, and I hope they’ll bring—at best—the satisfaction of Full Circle.

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Glimpsing a name I’ve had correspondence with months ago jogs certain feelings: the integral slant of morning sunlight on the first Friday of Libre’s publication schedule, or how the contributor punctuated, responded in gladness or anxiety.

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There’s a space in memory I like referring to as ‘the pigmented remains’. It’s the stuff we half-remember or the impressions that are press-able, full to their diaphanous widths with spongy recall. Revisiting and re-formatting these archival YEAR ONE pieces has been a bloodbath of color.

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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...

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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“The velocity of water molecules determines their form—from mist to sea to glacier. In Scandinavia, people plunge into ice baths after saunas to improve their circulation. In the past, insane asylums used cold water torture as a ‘treatment’ to subdue psychiatric patients.”

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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

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

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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?...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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...

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Featuring: CHARLOTTE COLE ROBERT NERSESIAN PATTY SOMLO HAROLD LIMINAL E.H. JACOBS MARK ANTONY ROSSI MARK SHAPIRO TERRY SANVILLE R.M. DAVENPORT LAUREN MCGOVERN

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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...

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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We’ll keep them always in the newly safe net of the Archives. Even if Libre doesn’t last forever, I’ll continue paying the fees towards keeping the website open. Enjoy these early pieces of prose and poetry below:

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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.

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

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A few weeks off, but we’re back to archiving. Due to personal circumstances, I had to step away for a brief time to fail and manage and fail and restore my offline life. We’re so grateful to these contributors. Revisit their meter if you’ve got the time.

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or the emotional translucence that follows a thumbs-up (business-blue, the embodiment of culture’s thanking-device). We congratulate one another in numbers these days, and while the programming’s invisible, the sentiment of seeing and taking part is as Homo sapien as fingernails.

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When we speak around healing, we’re speaking to the greater collective experience of trauma-swapping. Social media’s the NYC basement communal bath, set to epsom salts, the variety of which is digitized, comes in the logarithmic packaging of opaque heart icon,

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🧠 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

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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?...

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...

Michael Hill @ccprof.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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...

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...

Winter Poetics – LIBRE

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the defunct (but lovely) journal The Quill, The Wayne Literary Review and contributed to a comic anthology about the pandemic entitled The Things They Did.

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Michael Hill is a father, husband, dog partner, and unionist who teaches at a community college in Michigan. He has published in High Rise: Brutalist Poetry, Delicate Emissions, Dogwood Alchemy…

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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?...

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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...

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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...

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🧠 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

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

🧠 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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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Stay out of the sun, squeeze a lemon into that gallon to water I know you’ve got beside the laptop, and remember: logging memory’s a fitful business.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Another batch of contributors’ pieces today. 🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on... MATHIEU PARSY BOGDAN GROZA & KONSTANTINA KLIAGKONA DANIEL FITZPATRICK JOEL PECKHAM, JR. ELYSE BROUHARD SAI PRADHAN CRISTINA SANCHEZ AMURI MORRIS PETER ROMASKIEWICZ MARY BUCHANAN

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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It changed and so the avatar had to change, and in this shift, I’ve experimented and found only disappointing sub-ins. I hate dissatisfaction. I attack it. I change my mind a lot, and if I were a book character, it’d be something someone would point out as a character flaw.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Here's my mid-year wrap-up. Incredibly grateful to have so much out this year already. @chmmagazine.bsky.social @librelit.bsky.social @innerworlds.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social 's Anomaly @intrepidusink.bsky.social @pulpasylum.bsky.social @fusionfragment.bsky.social's Saros SF 💜🤘💀

2025 Mid-Year Publications
Michael Bettendorf
-Devil is Fine - Cosmic Horror Monthly Issue 55
-#E0E0E0 Sky - Libre
-Never Odd or Even - Inner Worlds Issue 6
-A Complete Collapse of Guidance Systems, Yet We Persist - Anomaly
-Somewhere in the Lunar Wilderness & Counter Offer - Intrepidus Ink
-Cyberpunk/Tech-noir Drabble set of 5 - Saros SF Issue 3 Tears in Rain
-Traced in Air - Pulp Asylum
-Between Jesus and the Joker - Backchannels

The background is a blue/purple/pink ombre. Two Pinwheels of Michael Bettendorfs bookend the title. A purple version of his dog shooting laser beams from her eyes is in the bottom right corner.

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Libre @librelit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The next slew of YEAR ONE contributors are logged and published. View them for this 2nd special time. ELIZABETH R. MCCLELLAN MICHAEL BETTENDORF ALEX Z. SALINAS KETI SHEA ALEXI ELIAS SALENA CASHA MICHAEL L. BUTKOVICH STEPHANIE LEONARD ELSIE COYNE ZOE STEELER 🧠 librelit.com/read/year-on...