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Alex Tretbar

Alex Tretbar’s manuscript “Kansas City Gothic” was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Wolfson Poetry Chapbook Prize, and his work appears or is forthcoming in Bat City Review, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Full Stop, Iterant, Meridian, phoebe, Pithead Chapel, Poetry Northwest, SAND, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, Tretbar teaches free writing classes to the community.

Literary Curiosities

Spring 2024

Oculus Dexter

By Alex Tretbar

The Kenyon Review · “Oculus Dexter” by Alex Tretbar A spider or a remnant of its web, I thought at first. The night before, I had fallen asleep next to […]