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Alex Tretbar
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According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025)
Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025)

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Alex Tretbar @alextretbar.bsky.social · Apr 28
Piece from a digital chaplet that recently appeared in ISSUE. Head to issue01.org to read the urgent and vital work of other contributors such as @joehalljoehall.bsky.social, Echo, @isaacpickell.bsky.social, Jenkin Benson, Rachel Lauren Myers, Tyler Barton, and others.
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Alex Tretbar’s ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF is now available to pre-order www.ethelzine.com/shop/accordi... @alextretbar.bsky.social
And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed, a pillowcase in my pillow: No pictures exist of me from that time. Watch your head, this is a graveyard. The way the chocolatier regards their dripping medium in the television advertisement. Are you sure that isn't you singing in the background. Are you sure you're still reading. Watch your headnotes, they're beginning to summarize your major contributions to hermeneutics, the sound of the frozen pond complaining beneath the geese who have the advantage of being able to fly when the structure sleepwalks. I walk into my bed and close the door. What door. Are you sure that isn't you signing the document. The sonnets are merely markers serving to indicate that you are still in a graveyard. This is NPR. from According to the Plat Thereof unbodied palinode in which the speaker is unable to articulate how they have changed their mind
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Pre-order one of these lovelies ❤️

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October 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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alextretbar.bsky.social
Reviewed @serxaphym.bsky.social's debut BATTALION SHAPED GIRL (Discount Guillotine) for @fullstopmag.bsky.social. These lambent, crystalline poems think and vision and language their way through Wittgenstein, state-sponsored violence, transness, and being.

www.full-stop.net/2025/09/19/r...
September 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
alextretbar.bsky.social
Reviewed @serxaphym.bsky.social's debut BATTALION SHAPED GIRL (Discount Guillotine) for @fullstopmag.bsky.social. These lambent, crystalline poems think and vision and language their way through Wittgenstein, state-sponsored violence, transness, and being.

www.full-stop.net/2025/09/19/r...
September 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
alextretbar.bsky.social
one of two sonnets in bethh (www.readbethh.org)
September 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
alextretbar.bsky.social
I recently published an article in Callaloo comparing artificial intelligence (by way of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram) with the racist and reductive editorial practices of the white people who published the narrative of Mary Prince, a formerly enslaved woman.

Link in bio. DM for PDF.
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
alextretbar.bsky.social
"The address of my house has changed..."

Mahmoud Darwish, "Prison"
July 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
alextretbar.bsky.social
"&" by @elise-tran.bsky.social, in @miznaarabart.bsky.social

"Collage of found text taken from individual, sponsored, and suggested posts, stories, news headlines, and advertisements while scrolling through Instagram and X"
July 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
alextretbar.bsky.social
One of three new poems in @memezine.bsky.social's KAKISTOCRACY issue (kakistocracy = "a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country").

Down with American empire and its cruel and heartless idiots.
July 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Help incarcerated writer Sara Kielly with her legal fees! We are trying to raise $400 to help her fight back against the department of corrections. Please read details below. If sending funds, please note "For Sara."
June 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
alextretbar.bsky.social
Friendly reminder that PEN America is little more than a soft power appendage of American imperialism (from Juliana Spahr's DU BOIS'S TELEGRAM)
June 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
alextretbar.bsky.social
Alice Notley, from THE DESCENT OF ALETTE
May 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The writer Derek Trumbo was recently released from prison after nearly two decades inside, but the home where he is staying was flooded last month and he is now in need of support. Please donate what you can to help him get back on his feet.

chuffed.org/project/1317...
Writer Derek Trumbo is now free and he needs our help
It’s been two years since Derek Trumbo was first introduced to Prism readers as the author of “Never Eat the Candy on your Pillow.” The now bi-weekly column has a simple premise: to serve as a commons...
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May 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
alextretbar.bsky.social
The writer Derek Trumbo was recently released from prison after nearly two decades inside, but the home where he is staying was flooded last month and he is now in need of support. Please donate what you can to help him get back on his feet.

chuffed.org/project/1317...
Writer Derek Trumbo is now free and he needs our help
It’s been two years since Derek Trumbo was first introduced to Prism readers as the author of “Never Eat the Candy on your Pillow.” The now bi-weekly column has a simple premise: to serve as a commons...
chuffed.org
May 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Today a fundraiser was launched for Derek, to help him purchase a used car to get to and from work and parole meetings, and to help him recover after a horrendous storm flooded the home where he lives. If you can donate, every little bit helps! If you can't, please consider sharing his fundraiser:
Writer Derek Trumbo is now free and he needs our help
It’s been two years since Derek Trumbo was first introduced to Prism readers as the author of “Never Eat the Candy on your Pillow.” The now bi-weekly column has a simple premise: to serve as a commons...
chuffed.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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@prismreports.org is really a leader here: prismreports.org/category/cri...
May 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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a sonnet from PUBLIC HAUNTS in the new @senecareview.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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makecommon.bsky.social
NEW POEMS || Blue Bag Press Issue 01: STATE(D) VIOLENCE. It's a furious, not f-ing around issue refusing po' biz as usual. w/works by several ppl I've been growing to respect more & more, alert to this hideous moment, including @isaacpickell.bsky.social @alextretbar.bsky.social
issue01.org/joe-hall
Joe Hall — ISSUE01
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issue01.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
alextretbar.bsky.social
Piece from a digital chaplet that recently appeared in ISSUE. Head to issue01.org to read the urgent and vital work of other contributors such as @joehalljoehall.bsky.social, Echo, @isaacpickell.bsky.social, Jenkin Benson, Rachel Lauren Myers, Tyler Barton, and others.
April 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
alextretbar.bsky.social
"Sonnet With Congealed Labor In It." Thanks to @multiwhirl.bsky.social for publishing it in @proteanmag.com, a magazine that everyone should read.
April 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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"He became most rabid when speaking about the Grays."

Fiction by @alextretbar.bsky.social . Spring '25, exclusive to print. Subscribe today for full access and your discounted rate.

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April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“Now you, gorging on mud near the crest/ of the plume by my feet. And my gorgeous/wings spread like the mouth of a carnivora.”

More copies of Joshua Burton’s FRACTURE ANTHOLOGY in Ethel’s shop,with art by Zumbambico.
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To my older brother: I forgive you Not to unshackle you. But to relocate the power. The hour where my little girl gashes are barred shut and clamped. My wings have grown too fierce, unyielding. Now I am a Siren, eclipsing three children. Fluttering, with the gleam of a diadem. Luna-like, loving each queer shadow I cast. I forgive you, only so that what you've sown doesn't scatter. Now you, gorging on mud near the crest of the plume by my feet. And my gorgeous wings spread like the mouth of a carnivora.
March 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
alextretbar.bsky.social
a small fiction for my friend "Slim"
wherever he may be

in @exactingclam.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM