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M'Bilia Meekers

A Cave Canem fellow, M'Bilia Meekers received her MFA in poetry from NYU. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Split Lip, Foglifter, The Adroit Journal, Poet Lore, Wildness,
Tinderbox, and Guernica. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is working on her first collection of poems.

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Two poems: "Muse Redaction" and "Are There Parts of You People Wear Around?"

by M'Bilia Meekers August 30, 2017December 3, 2020

I know, somewhere / there's a woman in a factory who winds thread around spools / like this.

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