Alex Tretbar’s ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF is now available to pre-order www.ethelzine.com/shop/accordi... @alextretbar.bsky.social

Pre-order one of these lovelies ❤️ www.ethelzine.com/shop @nlriversss.bsky.social @ghoststructural.bsky.social @tommywyattblake.bsky.social @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...

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.

"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)

Alice Notley, from THE DESCENT OF ALETTE

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...

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...

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:

@prismreports.org is really a leader here: prismreports.org/category/cri...

a sonnet from PUBLIC HAUNTS in the new @senecareview.bsky.social

NEW POEMS || Blue Bag Press Issue 01: STATE(D) VIOLENCE. It's a furious, not f-ing around issue refusing po' biz as usual. w/works by several ppl I've been growing to respect more & more, alert to this hideous moment, including @isaacpickell.bsky.social @alextretbar.bsky.social issue01.org/joe-hall

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.

"He became most rabid when speaking about the Grays." Fiction by @alextretbar.bsky.social . Spring '25, exclusive to print. Subscribe today for full access and your discounted rate. https://www.exactingclam.com/subscribe/

“Now you, gorging on mud near the crest/ of the plume by my feet. And my gorgeous/wings spread like the mouth of a carnivora.” More copies of Joshua Burton’s FRACTURE ANTHOLOGY in Ethel’s shop,with art by Zumbambico. www.ethelzine.com/shop/pre-ord...

a small fiction for my friend "Slim" wherever he may be in @exactingclam.bsky.social

It is more than our minds can handle: finding at the end of all meadows a mandible, sunwashed and wordless. Today's poem from the $ vault is "Hex Season" by @alextretbar.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/alex-tr...

Tonight!

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

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social wraps the year with a powerful essay for @solitarywatch.bsky.social about her transition out of eight years in solitary confinement. Solitary Watch has also announced Kwaneta as its newest contributing writer! solitarywatch.org/2024/12/19/i...

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...

New work at the site tomorrow / which means today is an excellent day to reacquaint yourself with @alextretbar.bsky.social's phenomenal unbodied poems, up now

@prisonpolicy.bsky.social highlights some of the year's best reporting on incarceration, and offer tips for journalists interested in pursuing similar stories in their states. Featuring reporting by EA writers Sara Kielly and Christopher Blackwell! www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12...

The form and ferocity (and tenderness) of @joehalljoehall.bsky.social's PEOPLE FINDER, BUFFALO (CLOAK) provide another way forward for oppositional poetries.

For old time’s sake, here is one of my favorite Dean Young poems of all time. (And not just because he mentions King Crimson.) From title to tail, a piece of perfection, esp. in how he uses question to turn, pause, put a comet in his slingshot. Sending to all who know the black dog too well. 🖤

Today's AC email edition hot off the laptop, featuring new work by @alextretbar.bsky.social, updates on a variety of preeminent American and nonAmerican authors, sad news about a lit mag we like a lot, plus our OFFICIAL 2024 PUSHCART NOMINATIONS

6 Unbodied Poems, new today at AC www.alwayscrashing.com/current

"2. This footnote is not a body and serves only to indicate that the bracketed text is not a title." // 6 unbodied poems by Alex Tretbar / @alextretbar.bsky.social, new today at AC //

This Giving Tuesday, support the empowerment and liberation of artists, writers and filmmakers who are incarcerated. Donate to Empowerment Avenue here, and thank you so much for your support: www.flipcause.com/secure/cause...

We've got a partnership with the newsletter Black Lipstick to feature the stories of women and queer incarcerated writers. Here, Lanae Tipton and Marissa Leanne Potts share essays about how cycles of abuse are continued and exacerbated inside prison: blacklipstick.substack.com/p/a-daily-oc...

poem for a friend in The Greensboro Review

Open letter and link to sign: tinyurl.com/4knb396b lithub.com/hundreds-of-...

Love a list poem and a poem with footnotes, this one from @alextretbar.bsky.social with both is a beaut! “Instructions to be issued to AICs(1) One Month Prior to Release” “(1) Adults in Custody” sundoglit.com/alex-tretbar/

Open letter and link to sign: tinyurl.com/4knb396b lithub.com/hundreds-of-...

One of the strangest endings to a novel I've read in quite some time.

"UIUC has staked its position firmly out as one of the most threatening schools in the U.S. for students who are outwardly opposed to ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Rietz’s office declined to comment."

Excited to share the artwork and writing of incarcerated folks on this platform! To get going, here's EA co-founder Emily Nonko and EA writer Chris Blackwell on why we need prison journalism, for @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This former Toys R' Us shipping plant worker has a lot of love for Andrew Rader Hanson's This Warehouse Manufactures Thirst (2024). Logistics workers unite.

More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, according to the UN. A total of 281 humanitarian workers have been killed. 230 were killed by Israel.

Tender, stark, humming with sensory and spiritual power. 5 vignettes of a youth in Lebanon. Kim & Lea Roger Abi Zeid Daou's The Taste of Sun (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023)

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