July 31, 2026
My Uncle Who Died of AIDS Probably
by Tarik Dobbs
Your legs obliterated
& collapsing country
July 21, 2026
Mizna Launches Mizna Fellowship for Early Career Artist Supported by Jerome Foundation
by Lamia Abukhadra | in Mizna News
First Mizna Fellows are Minnesota-based Tarik Dobbs and Yasmin Yassin Mizna launches an annual fellowship, generously supported by the Jerome Foundation, to foster the work of early career SWANA artists who are developing new, innovative, socially engaged work. The two 2026 fellows, writer and artist Tarik Dobbs and filmmaker Yasmin Yassin, whose work corresponds to Mizna’s flagship program areas, literature and moving image, to pursue their creative interests, research, and...
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May 7, 2026
Spring in St. Paul
by Tarik Dobbs
Not yet sunset,
the porches keep
their broad hips
turned toward evening,
April 21, 2022
What is experimental work, anyways? Foreword to Mizna 22.2: The Experimental Issue
by Tarik Dobbs
This text is published as part of Mizna: The Experimental Issue, guest-edited by Tarik Dobbs. Available to order here. By Tarik Dobbs When I asked one of my non-writer friends what they thought “experimental writing” was, they shrugged and said, “I don’t know, um, does it go crazy all over the page?” And it’s hard to resist this definition of |art| poetry. Who can resist playing in Microsoft WordArt? And maybe play is one facet of experimentation. The internet world of...
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