Alex Tretbar

Alex Tretbar is a Kansas City-based poet and writer. As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, he teaches free writing classes to the community.

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State Power

Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners?

Alex Tretbar Natalye Childress
color collage with a red-and-white border and the PEN America logo among barbed wire, an outstretched hand with coins falling