Faisal Mohyuddin | Oak Park, IL
Dua for America
Ink on watercolor paper, 18” x 24” (2020)
Dua for America is a visual representation of a supplication to Allah, to self and to community. It is a plea for guidance and a reminder that love, power and radiance exist in all of us. The repetition of the word “ameen” is an affirmation, a representation of the collective conscious saying, “Yes, yes, yes to all that is powerful and good.”
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Faisal Mohyuddin
Faisal Mohyuddin (he/him) is an educator, writer, and visual artist from Chicago, Illinois. His debut full-length poetry collection, The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018), was a Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society and named a “highly commended” collection of the year by the Forward Arts Foundation. Also the author of the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone, 2017), Faisal has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, and the Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner. His poetry has appeared in several journals and anthologies and been featured on On Being’s Poetry Unbound podcast and on the YouTube series Ours Poetica.
He teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago, is an adjunct instructor at the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University, and serves as a master practitioner for Narrative 4, a global not-for-profit dedicated to fostering empathy through the exchange of stories. Learn more at www.faisalmohyuddin.com