Alex Tretbar

Chapbooks

toofarwandered, Tilted House, forthcoming

According to the Plat Thereof, Ethel, October 2025

Kansas City Gothic, Broken Sleep, October 2025

Poetry

“Melting Down the Spoon (In Light of Suspicious Circumstances),” “Whatever Remains of the Idea Is Likely Unreachable,” and “And Approached with Six Dread Flowers in My Hair,” hearsay journal, forthcoming

“Diesel Therapy” and “School,” coastlines review, forthcoming

“Come Over!”, “Field 20,” “The Fragments Were So Many That I Could Hear Them,” “Psalm 8,000,” “Sealed Memorandum Concerning Our Decision to Harbor Criminals in the Sunshine,” and “Flowchart Found Carved Under the Seat of a Golf Cart in a Haunted House in a Remote Province of the Imperium, 1995,” A Dozen Nothing, forthcoming

“Beyond Estrangement Is What We Desire,” “Intersection,” and “Empty Plat,” Afternoon Visitor, forthcoming

“[up display, we preferred the overture we]” and “[and what a limited palette we found],” Fence, forthcoming

“The Cellmate,” the minnesota review, forthcoming

“Time and Materials,” Pleiades, forthcoming

“The Window,” Prairie Schooner, forthcoming

“Highway,” Amenia Free Review, February 2026

“Field 44,” “The Water Ring,” “[ushered me into silence as though it were language],” and “Field 82,” La Lancha, January 2026

“[00],” “[01],” “[02],” “[06]” and “[07],” Works & Days, December 2025

excerpts from Kinglet or So, Cleveland Review of Books, December 2025

“[see now why we flocked to canopy and slept there, preferring],” “[dataflow to national geographic, a frozen sirocco leaching],” and “[through the gearshift, ignition, my bedroom is going to change],” The Pill, November 2025

“Arrowshaft trembled in squirrelwake…”, “That was his name! Juice of Orange…”, “O air compressor…” (excerpts from toofarwandered), VOLT, October 2025

“My Tolerance to Therapy Is Approaching Its Professionally Predicted Ceiling” (broadside), Tilted House, October 2025

“A Junco’s Tangled Up in the Concertina” (a heroic crown of sonnets), RESOURCES (Blue Bag Press), Folio: “Triptych///Kinship Poietics” (with Elise Thi Tran and Thom Eichelberger-Young), September 2025

“[bodies I noticed the folder contained within it another]” and “[folder labeled older bodies and within it a million],” bethh, September 2025

“Field 41,” “Field 48” and “Field 26,” Chicago Review, July 2025

“Wrong Trees,” NOIR SAUNA, July 2025

“[we resolved to save enough money to be warm],” “[for a single moment, we all piled into the car],” “[accident with our hands all ringed and knived],” “[and april and ian and holly and alex],” “[and emily quoted in bas relief],” Denver Quarterly, July 2025

“Concert Hall,” “Field 104” and “The Escutcheon,” MEMEZINE, July 2025

“[into our flooded attics, how the trapeze]” and “[artist broke ground on a project we referred to as],” Seneca Review, May 2025

excerpts from Public Haunts, ISSUE (“State(d) Violence”) (Blue Bag Press), April 2025

“Sonnet With Congealed Labor In It,” Protean, April 2025

“Crux” and “Interpellation,” Iron Horse Literary Review (“Unlawful Acts”), March 2025

“McKinley Park Palinode in Which Winter Is No Longer My Favorite Season,” Ecobloomspaces (anthology), March 2025

“Paresthesia on Park Avenue,” RHINO, March 2025

“Badminton Lessons,” a performance in collaboration with composer Viskamol Chaiwanichsiri, CompLaboration, NEXUS Integrated Arts Series, UMKC Conservatory, March 2025

“[cellar and the absent doctor],” Words Beyond Bars, January 2025

“[04],” “[22],” “[25]” and “[37],” Coma, December 2024

six unbodied poems, Always Crashing, December 2024

“[16],” Southeast Review, November 2024

“Still Life with Manifesto and Severance Package,” The Greensboro Review, November 2024

“Field 29,” “Field 39” and “Field 51,” Sweet Mammalian, November 2024

“Field 61,” “Field 63” and “Field 66,” Jet Fuel Review, November 2024

“Park,” like a field, October 2024

“Willamette Shipyard Blues,” Narrative, October 2024

“Instructions to be Issued to AICs One Month Prior to Release,” Sundog Lit, September 2024

“Field 38″ and “Field 53,” New Orleans Review, August 2024

“And perhaps there is a bedroom in my bed,” Poetry Online, August 2024