May 19, 2026
Postmortem—An Excerpt from The Skin and Its Girl
by Sarah Cypher
“Postmortem,” an excerpt from Sarah Cypher’s novel The Skin and Its Girl, invites the reader into a mindset where departures from realism enable new linguistic maneuvers, such as subverting calcified stereotypes of Arabs and Arabic speakers in American supremacist culture.
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April 1, 2026
Mizna Presents: National Poetry Month Prompts
by Layla Faraj
Exploring language, form, & visuality What happens when we let our mother tongue bite, lick, swallow, or spit an English poem? What does it mean for a writer to have multiple languages they live in, around, and against? Reflecting on Mizna’s history of experimentation, disobedience, and playfulness—and during National Poetry Month and Arab American Heritage month—this Mizna Online feature presents ten archival works and thirty original prompts curated by NNAAC Fellow Layla...
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June 19, 2025
a girlhood summer passes
you curl against me like a burning hair as airstrikes pock the hillside, bare earth red as afterbirth. upturned. we knob until we find fairuz on the radio.
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