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REVIEWS/PRESS

 

 

A Review of Ayesha Raees’ COINING A WISHING TOWER

by Burgi Zenhaeusern

 

Interview 
by Cleo Qian, Four Ways Review, 2024

Interview Art Is + Ayesha Raees

By: Janelle Tan, Singapore Unbound, 2022

A Language for Loss and Grief: An Interview with Ayesha Raees

by Mishal Imaan Syed, WestWind, UCLA

Book Review: Coining A Wishing Tower

 By: Arman Salem, Harbor Review, 2022

Podcast: Keep the Channel Open: Episode 129

Ayesha Raees and Mike Sakasegawa, 2022

Book Review: "Coining a Wishing Tower"

By: Alex Carrigan, Quail Bell Magazine, 2022

New Book :: Coining a Wishing Tower

Newpages Blog

Book Review: Coining A Wishing Tower 

By:Benjamin Schmitt, At The Inkwell, 2022

CutBank Interviews: A Conversation with Ayesha Raees

By: Josh Wagner, CutBank Literary Magazine, 2021

Ayesha Raees Explores Displacement Through Hybrid Art Forms, Words by Amanda Goonetilleke,  Kajol Magazine, 2021.  

Featured Artist, Ayesha Raees, Epi-Center.NYC, 2021

Podcast: S1 EP3: Ayesha Raees Joins!  Alternaverse with Annie Goold and Lindsay Warren, 2021. 

Poet-of-the-week, Brooklyn Poets. 

Podcast: S3 EP5: Pursuing Artistic Passions Against All Odds (ft. Ayesha Raees‪)‬, Tso Yellow with Cindy Lin and Helen Lin 2021. 

Margins Fellow 2018-2019, Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Ayesha Raees Named AAWW Margins Fellow, Bennington College.

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Illustration by Kendall Moore

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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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