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Platypus Press: Book Launch! Ayesha Raees, Ae Hee Lee, Cathy Linh Che and Ruth Awad

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Platypus Press: Book Launch! Ayesha Raees, Ae Hee Lee, Cathy Linh Che and Ruth Awad
Platypus Press: Book Launch! Ayesha Raees, Ae Hee Lee, Cathy Linh Che and Ruth Awad

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Mar 12, 2022, 4:00 PM

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Ayesha Raees عائشہ رئیس is a poet and artist identifying as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her interdisciplinary work places poetry at its center and delves into paint, film, sound,  theater, performance, and collaboration with the intention of breaking conventional ideas of linear language, form, and genre to materialize a space of belonging for marginalia and their narratives. Her work strongly revolves around issues of belonging and dislocation, G/god and spirituality, and beauty::cruelty while possessing a strong agency for decolonial, anti-violence, and anti-erasure practices. She edits poetry at The Margins and has received endorsements from Asian American Writers Workshop, Kundiman, Brooklyn Poets, UNESCO, Millay Colony For The Arts and elsewhere. Her work has been published extensively, including Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, The Nation, Poets.org and others. Her first book of poems Coining A Wishing Tower won the Broken River Prize and was an Indies Award Finalist. Originally from Lahore, she is based in New York City.

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