Bio for 2025
Maira Faisal is a senior at Northern Kentucky University. She was the 2024-25 Kentucky Youth Poet Laureate and the Spring 2023 undergraduate library fellow at her college. Her work has been recognized by multiple university journals, Hanging Loose Press, Writers Resist, and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She led the first workshop of and assisted with Urban Word’s National Poem Project Pakistan, which became the first international Youth Poet Laureate Program. She enjoys painting, drinks too much chai and coffee, and hopes to be a physician in the future.
Reason for signing up:
After the past four years, it's tradition.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2025 The Cardinal
- June 02, 2025 The Sound of Time
- June 03, 2025 Tectonic
- June 05, 2025 Coffee Matrimony
- June 06, 2025 Mehndi and Mourning
- June 07, 2025 Spring’s Massif
- June 12, 2025 Lagan
- June 13, 2025 For Chemistry
Badges
Participated in the 2021 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2022 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2023 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2024 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
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