October 28, 2023
The Bringers of Violence
Again, Fanon’s words come to mind: “The town belonging to the colonized people . . . the native town, the Negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how.”
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June 19, 2026
I Am Not Your Translator
Without the untranslatable the translatable is nonviable. The untranslatable, too, is a biologic imperative. At the gene level, an intron is a noncoding sequence that indicates where the translatable sequence is. And the untranslatable is a cosmic imperative as well. The Arabic dark matter with which English light seems unwilling to interact.
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June 4, 2026
Excerpt from My Center Is Not In The Solar System: Tributes to Etel Adnan
Don’t we all move and imagine
if we stopped someplace, we never would?
May 29, 2026
Call for Submissions: Mizna 27.2, Ancestry/Indigeneity
Submissions open Friday, May 29, 2026 and close Monday, July 6, 2026 Please read the full call for submissions carefully. Submissions that do not adhere to guidelines will be discarded unread. Theme Mizna is opening submissions for its newest issue, seeking poetry, prose, and hybrid literary work that focuses on ancestry and indigeneity. Guest-edited by poet and scholar Umniya Najaer, this issue is interested in honoring Indigenous wisdoms in their many forms and giving space for...
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