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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