May 19, 2026

Poems: “On the Other End of Translation” & “On Sunday Night I am Tired of Proving I Deserve Languages”

by Elina Katrin

In “On the Other End of Translation” and “On Sunday Night I am Tired of Proving I Deserve Languages,” Elina Katrin, one of Mizna editors and the Tongues Untethered folio curator, explores how poetic form can enhance linguistic dichotomy, question the expectation of fluency, and present languages—Arabic and Russian—as something lived and experienced within the body and outside it.