May 19, 2026

Poems: “Come From,” “Learning to Write in Arabic,” & “Arabic Abecedarian”

by janan alexandra

janan alexandra’s “Come From,” “Learning to Write in Arabic,” and “Arabic Abecedarian” take us to a language-place full of questions and paradox, presence and absence, intimacy and estrangement all at once. Illuminating these contradictions and the ways they exist simultaneously is a unifying seam that runs across all three poems.