Alex Tretbar
@alextretbar.bsky.social
According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025)
Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025)
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Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025)
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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...
www.full-stop.net/2025/09/19/r...
September 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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...
www.full-stop.net/2025/09/19/r...
one of two sonnets in bethh (www.readbethh.org)
September 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
one of two sonnets in bethh (www.readbethh.org)
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.
Link in bio. DM for PDF.
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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.
Link in bio. DM for PDF.
"The address of my house has changed..."
Mahmoud Darwish, "Prison"
Mahmoud Darwish, "Prison"
July 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"The address of my house has changed..."
Mahmoud Darwish, "Prison"
Mahmoud Darwish, "Prison"
"&" 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"
"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
"&" 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"
"Collage of found text taken from individual, sponsored, and suggested posts, stories, news headlines, and advertisements while scrolling through Instagram and X"
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.
Down with American empire and its cruel and heartless idiots.
July 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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.
Down with American empire and its cruel and heartless idiots.
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
Friendly reminder that PEN America is little more than a soft power appendage of American imperialism (from Juliana Spahr's DU BOIS'S TELEGRAM)
Alice Notley, from THE DESCENT OF ALETTE
May 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Alice Notley, from THE DESCENT OF ALETTE
a sonnet from PUBLIC HAUNTS in the new @senecareview.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
a sonnet from PUBLIC HAUNTS in the new @senecareview.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
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.
"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
"Sonnet With Congealed Labor In It." Thanks to @multiwhirl.bsky.social for publishing it in @proteanmag.com, a magazine that everyone should read.
March 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Recent poem in Words Beyond Bars. They pay each of their incarcerated and formerly incarcerated contributors $50. They don't accept snail mail submissions, but if you know someone in prison who'd like to submit and needs help doing so, feel free to DM me.
wordsbeyondbars.com
wordsbeyondbars.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Recent poem in Words Beyond Bars. They pay each of their incarcerated and formerly incarcerated contributors $50. They don't accept snail mail submissions, but if you know someone in prison who'd like to submit and needs help doing so, feel free to DM me.
wordsbeyondbars.com
wordsbeyondbars.com
I've got four poems from [hail] in Coma (Community Mausoleum). Here's one, and here's a link to the rest:
www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...
www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...
December 19, 2024 at 2:54 AM
I've got four poems from [hail] in Coma (Community Mausoleum). Here's one, and here's a link to the rest:
www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...
www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...
The form and ferocity (and tenderness) of @joehalljoehall.bsky.social's PEOPLE FINDER, BUFFALO (CLOAK) provide another way forward for oppositional poetries.
December 12, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The form and ferocity (and tenderness) of @joehalljoehall.bsky.social's PEOPLE FINDER, BUFFALO (CLOAK) provide another way forward for oppositional poetries.
poem for a friend in The Greensboro Review
November 30, 2024 at 11:43 PM
poem for a friend in The Greensboro Review
One of the strangest endings to a novel I've read in quite some time.
November 30, 2024 at 12:38 AM
One of the strangest endings to a novel I've read in quite some time.
Wrote about interpellation and bewilderment/dewilderment.
"this unlyrical we: notes against a poetics of cooperation" is up over at Blue Bag Press under "INTERVENTIONS." Thanks to Thom Eichelberger-Young for helping me get much closer to what I was trying to say.
Link: bit.ly/4ehecyh
"this unlyrical we: notes against a poetics of cooperation" is up over at Blue Bag Press under "INTERVENTIONS." Thanks to Thom Eichelberger-Young for helping me get much closer to what I was trying to say.
Link: bit.ly/4ehecyh
November 24, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Wrote about interpellation and bewilderment/dewilderment.
"this unlyrical we: notes against a poetics of cooperation" is up over at Blue Bag Press under "INTERVENTIONS." Thanks to Thom Eichelberger-Young for helping me get much closer to what I was trying to say.
Link: bit.ly/4ehecyh
"this unlyrical we: notes against a poetics of cooperation" is up over at Blue Bag Press under "INTERVENTIONS." Thanks to Thom Eichelberger-Young for helping me get much closer to what I was trying to say.
Link: bit.ly/4ehecyh
new poem in phoebe
thanks to @icooper435.bsky.social for help with the last line's phrasing
link in bio (for poem and for full issue)
thanks to @icooper435.bsky.social for help with the last line's phrasing
link in bio (for poem and for full issue)
February 18, 2024 at 2:21 AM
new poem in phoebe
thanks to @icooper435.bsky.social for help with the last line's phrasing
link in bio (for poem and for full issue)
thanks to @icooper435.bsky.social for help with the last line's phrasing
link in bio (for poem and for full issue)
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
FUCK YOUR LECTURE ON CRAFT, MY PEOPLE ARE DYING, by Noor Hindi
FUCK YOUR LECTURE ON CRAFT, MY PEOPLE ARE DYING, by Noor Hindi
January 12, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
FUCK YOUR LECTURE ON CRAFT, MY PEOPLE ARE DYING, by Noor Hindi
FUCK YOUR LECTURE ON CRAFT, MY PEOPLE ARE DYING, by Noor Hindi
I interviewed the inimitable Ann Pedone for Full Stop. In addition to Ashbery, the erotic, and the blurring of genres, we discussed one of her current works in progress, HOTEL SAPPHO, which fuses the life of Cy Twombly with the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
www.full-stop.net/2023/10/10/i...
www.full-stop.net/2023/10/10/i...
October 10, 2023 at 8:40 PM
I interviewed the inimitable Ann Pedone for Full Stop. In addition to Ashbery, the erotic, and the blurring of genres, we discussed one of her current works in progress, HOTEL SAPPHO, which fuses the life of Cy Twombly with the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
www.full-stop.net/2023/10/10/i...
www.full-stop.net/2023/10/10/i...
Teaching a class on prose poems in this room tomorrow at the Kansas City Public Library's downtown branch, as part of the Heartland Book Festival. We're gonna look at poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz, Emily Berry, Lu Xun, Rabindranath Tagore, and Rimbaud.
Sonnets next month at the Plaza branch!
Sonnets next month at the Plaza branch!
October 6, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Teaching a class on prose poems in this room tomorrow at the Kansas City Public Library's downtown branch, as part of the Heartland Book Festival. We're gonna look at poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz, Emily Berry, Lu Xun, Rabindranath Tagore, and Rimbaud.
Sonnets next month at the Plaza branch!
Sonnets next month at the Plaza branch!
A little poem I wrote during the first year of the pandemic, just published in Coal City Review, Brian Daldorph's baby out of Lawrence.
October 4, 2023 at 1:21 PM
A little poem I wrote during the first year of the pandemic, just published in Coal City Review, Brian Daldorph's baby out of Lawrence.
Diana Marie Delgado, in AGNI
September 29, 2023 at 11:18 AM
Diana Marie Delgado, in AGNI