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Mizna Film Series 2025: Iranian Classics

The 2025 Mizna Film Series presents some of our favorite archival classics from the past 60 years of Iran’s cinema … Continue reading "Mizna Film Series 2025: Iranian Classics"

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Before I Sleep—Poem from Forest of Noise

It looks me in the eye and recounts to me the many times it let me live.

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2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Mizna is pleased to announce our 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations. The Pushcart Prize is an annual award and publication that … Continue reading "2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations"

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Call for Submissions: Mizna Summer Issue 26.1

PLEASE READ THE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES CAREFULLY, UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS SENT TO OUR EMAIL AND SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT ADHERE TO THE … Continue reading "Call for Submissions: Mizna Summer Issue 26.1"

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Honoring Palestinian Poets in a Time of Genocide: Poems from National Book Award Winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha + Finalist Fady Joudah

Love takes the form of rain clouds: we accumulate despite our im/possible wounds, gather even in miraculous conditions. We join our kin in the swarm, all of whom gathering, like us, as waters from unknowable sources. And then the flood.

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Toward an Apocalypse of Letters—Foreword to 25.1: Catastrophe

Love takes the form of rain clouds: we accumulate despite our im/possible wounds, gather even in miraculous conditions. We join our kin in the swarm, all of whom gathering, like us, as waters from unknowable sources. And then the flood.

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Flashbang

The building next door was stripped naked, its shattered windows gaping onto disarranged kitchens and bedrooms. My aunt’s building was leveled entirely. “Pow,” she said, flattening the air between her hands.

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Now, for the Weather

here: here: here: here: take what I have in exchange (but what do I have?) just this:

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Gazan Despair

Dear sky,  where were you when our homes were being bombed?

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