  We calculate polarization asymmetries in photoproduction of high transverse
momentum mesons, focusing on charged pions, considering the direct,
fragmentation, and resolved photon processes. The results at very high meson
momentum measure the polarized quark distributions and are sensitive to
differences among the existing models. The results at moderate meson momentum
are sensitive to the polarized gluon distribution and can provide a good way to
measure it. Suitable data may come as a by-product of deep inelastic
experiments to measure $g_1$ or from dedicated experiments.
