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Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi (Frontier I), a Cave Canem Fellow, is a Nigerian poet, a multidisciplinary artist, and a Medical Laboratory Scientist from Bobi. She is the author of Cadaver of Red Roses  (O, Miami Books, 2024), winner of the 2024 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize, and Uncensored Snapshots (Chestnut Review, 2025). X @ZainabBobi and Instagram @zaynab_iliyasu_bobi.


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8 Jun 2026

But I am no king, no man. It is a role I assumed in serving, with perfect order, those who scarcely saw fit to name me. Wild and shimmering, I hide from myself no longer. I was born twice from death. It is time to mend what was broken, even if they will not.
i am learning my new friend’s language / she said do you want to look for frogs sometime
They took the verse... and translated its grief into a new alphabet.
Friday: Hermits Die on Thursday: Stories of Appalachia and the Dark Ages by Gregory Ariail 
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