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Spring 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 2 • Literary Curiosities |

Oculus Dexter

By Alex Tretbar

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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.

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