Alex Tretbar
@alextretbar.bsky.social
Dogsmind (Dead Mall Press) toofarwandered (Tilted House) According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel) Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep) linktr.ee/alex_tretbar
...and, a little late for the email edition, but this fantastic interview with Tretbar just dropped from @deadmallpress.bsky.social: "In addition to Ulysses, you have mentioned that the video game Dark Souls was an important influence here."
WHERE AM I AND HOW DO I GET THERE? — DEAD MALL PRESS
An interview with Alex Tretbar about his new book, Dogsmind , available now from Dead Mall Press
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AC email edition featuring new work by Harrison F. Dietzman, an excerpt from @alextretbar.bsky.social's new DOGSMIND, updates on @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social and @seanbirnie.bsky.social, & an honestly wild number of coincidences
“A Necessary Illusion of Predictability”
featuring ouroboroses, ouroboroi, riverrun, the media household income in the state of Oregon, future iterations of Oregon, and a frankly unplanned-upon number of coincidences throughout
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DOGSMIND is out today w/ @deadmallpress.bsky.social. The second installment in a trilogy-in-progress, this novella-poem documents the misadventures of the Spokesperson and Ripjohn over the course of a single hellish and joyridden night—on repeat. PURCHASE HERE: deadmallpress.com/bookstore/do...
"The sonnets are merely markers serving to indicate that you are still in a graveyard." AC contrib @alextretbar.bsky.social at @poetrydaily.bsky.social!
[And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed,]
Watch your head, this is a graveyard.
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Today's Feature: [And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed,] by @alextretbar.bsky.social from According to the Plat Thereof published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/and-per...
[And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed,]
Watch your head, this is a graveyard.
poems.com
**DEwandered** -- a celebration of the release of toofarwandered (Tilted House) and Brooke Spalding's DEBAUCH (Bottlecap), at PLUG Gallery in Kansas City on Friday, July 17th. Also reading will be special guests Paige Webb and Brandan Griffin. Doors at 7, poems at 7:30.
My new chapbook "toofarwandered" comes out later this month with Tilted House 🪐 Here's the link to pre-order: www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/toofarw... Huge thanks to Ellen Boyette and @onlysiencyn.bsky.social for their incisive blurbs, which I've pasted into the comments below ✨
toofarwandered - PREORDER — TILTED HOUSE
toofarwandered by Alex Tretbar. A malfunctioning consciousness proceeds through its fabular bootup protocol as it prepares to enter (or exit) (or continue to exist forever in) hell. A mutatedlan...
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New email edition featuring work from Elijah Sparkman and Daniel Carter, updates on @alextretbar.bsky.social, @addisonzeller.bsky.social, Tony Mancus + a report from the AC Reading & Performance Series from Zona Motel
"I'm Not Going to Say I'm Proud of You"
featuring hairline cracks, wolf vibes, corpse fluid, dimensional shifts, melodic breakdowns, unmasked informants, and a face that is another face
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I love the playfulness of @alextretbar.bsky.social's According to the Plat Thereof where sonnets get bi-tri-or nil-furcated & poetry seems to wink at itself. Go over to @the-ethelzine.bsky.social, get yourselves a copy, & start playing. ☺️🌟💫🌟☺️ Also: I ❤️ @the-ethelzine.bsky.social! #poetry #bookSky
Binding Alex Tretbar’s ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF @alextretbar.bsky.social www.ethelzine.com/shop/accordi...
In lieu of purchasing Alex Tretbar’s ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF you can also donate $12 or more dollars to Ahmad Kassab’s gofundme and send the receipt to ethelzinesubmit@gmail.com. @alextretbar.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/support-si...
Alex Tretbar’s ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF is now available to pre-order www.ethelzine.com/shop/accordi... @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...
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...
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.
"The address of my house has changed..." 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"
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.
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."
Friendly reminder that PEN America is little more than a soft power appendage of American imperialism (from Juliana Spahr's DU BOIS'S TELEGRAM)
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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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
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
@prismreports.org is really a leader here: prismreports.org/category/cri...
Crime, Reform & Abolition Archives - Prism
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Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · last yr.100%. I’m really proud of the pieces @prismreports.org has published by incarcerated writers as part of our Right to Write initiative. From prison in NC, Lyle May is covering a few bills for us, highlighting how every day laws not explicitly about prisons overwhelmingly impact incarcerated people.
