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"Swift Trucks"
from Pleiades
Erika Meitner
's work includes Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls (Anhinga Press, 2011) and, most recently, Copia, forthcoming in 2014 from BOA Editions.
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About Pleiades:
March 2, 2011: "Instructions for Vigilant Girls" "Be the sleeping sister who sees no one...."
October 4, 2010: "To Whom It May Concern:" "Please excuse me from the meeting...."
September 22, 2010: "May the World to Come Be Neon, Be Water" "because my shoes are too tight...."
October 2, 2007: "The Bar Code of Love" " I brandished the wand & pushed..."
February 11, 2004: "Fathom" "A large man holding his arms..."
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"Not a Poem About Driving at Night"
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Pleaides: A Journal of New Writing * Department of English * Central Missouri State University * Warrensburg, MO 64093
Editor: Kathryn Nuernberger
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