April 29, 2026
The Cat’s Cradle, or How to Play a Tongue
by Layla Faraj
To mark the end of National Poetry Month, column editor Layla Faraj offers closing thoughts on the why and how of the editorial project.
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April 22, 2026
Week Four: Complicating Linguistic Traditions
by Layla Faraj
Continuing National Poetry Month, the accompanied original prompts push Mizna’s readers to convey struggle with, through, and as language.
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April 15, 2026
Week Three: Struggle as Language
by Layla Faraj
Continuing National Poetry Month, the accompanied original prompts push Mizna’s readers to convey struggle with, through, and as language.
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April 8, 2026
Week Two: Translinguistics
by Layla Faraj
Moving from the visual into the linguistic, for the second week of National Poetry Month Mizna is highlighting grammatical, poetic, and oral storytelling structures as they move/are moved between languages.
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April 1, 2026
Week One: Lexicality & Visuality
by Layla Faraj
Mizna begins our Poetry Month column with an experimentation of the visual, the borrowed, and the seemingly misunderstood.
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