Myra Kamal is a Pakistani American writer, currently residing in Phoenix. She serves as the 2021–22 Phoenix Youth Poet Laureate. Kamal is the founder and editor in chief of the youth literary magazine the borderline. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and National YoungArts and is an alum of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. Her work is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal.
Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize
Sept/Oct 2022
Diptych on Getting from Point A to Point B
A. Through many airplane windows I have seen cities unfurling like carpets of starlight over the earth. I could pull