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BOOKS

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Coining A Wishing Tower, Platypus Press,  Winner of Broken River Prize, judged by Kaveh Akbar, March 2022.

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REVIEWS/PRESS

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Interview Art Is + Ayesha Raees

By: Janelle Tan, Singapore Unbound, 2022

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

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Book Review: Coining A Wishing Tower

 By: Arman Salem, Harbor Review, 2022

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Podcast: Keep the Channel Open: Episode 129

Ayesha Raees and Mike Sakasegawa, 2022

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Book Review: "Coining a Wishing Tower"

By: Alex Carrigan, Quail Bell Magazine, 2022

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New Book :: Coining a Wishing Tower

Newpages Blog

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Book Review: Coining A Wishing Tower 

By:Benjamin Schmitt, At The Inkwell, 2022

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CutBank Interviews: A Conversation with Ayesha Raees

By: Josh Wagner, CutBank Literary Magazine, 2021

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

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

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

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Poet-of-the-week, Brooklyn Poets. 

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

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

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Ayesha Raees Named AAWW Margins Fellow, Bennington College.

PUBLICATIONS

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"Birthday Trip," Poetry Northwest, 2023. 

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"This Time, Last Time," Pleiades, 2023. 

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"Elegy:: Missing the Trigger of Winter Now Triggers You," Islandia Review,  2023. 

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"Good," Nation, 2022.

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"Exodus," Guernica, 2022. 

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"Miami," Saw Palm, 2022. Florida Flora & Fauna Poetry Contest Winner.

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"All Along, I Laid, Halved," Poem-a-day, Poets.org, June 2021

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"Ail," The Journal, 2022. 

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'"Aubade," The Journal, 2022. 

 

"Diary Entry: 25th April 2020. Lahore." Washington Square Review, 2022

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"Erasure," Booth, 2021

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"Blub," Mikrokosmos Journal, 2021

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"Love & Self. In Ten Acts," Quarterly West, 2021

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"Fundraiser," Madison Review, 2021 

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"War Of Bargain," The Offing, 2021

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“Lahore’s Morning New York’s Night,Gulf Coast, 2021  

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"God & You In Shadowplay," Miracle Monocle, 2021

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"Ohhh," Black Warrior Review, 2021.


“Dank,” Meridian, 2021 

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"Lahore, What Happened--" Aleph Review, 2021


Medea,” Inlandia Journal, 2021


“Rope into String,” The Fourth River, 2021


“Bless,” The Fourth River, 2021


“Smothering a Mothering,”
SAND, 2021


“List,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2021

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"Accessory," Counter-clock, 2020. 

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"Sapped," Far-Near Media, 2020. 

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"Diary Entry: 16th May 2020. Lahore," Rabbit: A Journal of Non-fiction poetry, 2020. 

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"Small Fry," Southern Indiana Review, 2020. 

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"SI Unit" &  "Gene Wilder," Brooklyn Review, 2020.

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"Apprehensions," Yalobusha Review, 2020. 

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"I Grew Up Watching Anime," Cagibi, 2020.

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"Bird Fight," Apogee Journal, 2020.

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"Smothering A Mothering" & "Associating the Disassociating," Wilderness, 2020.

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"Sport," &"Disassociation," Epiphany, 2020. 

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"Marathons Are Run for Causes," Brooklyn Poets, 2019.

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2 Poems, Hobart Pulp, 2019 .

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7 Photopoems, IDK Magazine, 2019.

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""Obstacle Sleep,"" & "Apple," Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, 2018.

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"Urgent Telegram to a Time Being," thetinymag, 2018.

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"Moments," Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, 2018.

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"Proof", Cherry Tree, Issue 4, 2018.

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FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

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Poetry Fellow, Kundiman Mentorship Lab, Kundiman, 2020.

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Winner of Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, December 2019.

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Brooklyn Poets Fellow at Brooklyn Poets, Fall 2019.

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Margins Fellow at Asian American Writers' Workshop2018-2019.

 

Millay Colony Resident, November 2018.

 

Judith Khan Memorial Poetry Prize ShortlistDesi Writer's Lounge, 2016.

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LUMS Young Writers' Workshop, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2015.

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APPEARANCES

 

Kundiman Mentorship Lab Reading, Books Are Magic, Jan 27, 7PM EST, virtual. 

 

Virtual Poetry Salon, East Village Poetry Salon, April 4th 2020, 2 PM EST, virtual. 

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Brooklyn Poets Fall Workshop Showcase, 61 Local, 7PM, New York City. 

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Asian Creative Network Holiday Market, Canal 371 St. December 7, 12- 9 PM, New York City.

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East Village Poetry Salon, July 13th 2019, 2-5PM Saturday, New York City.

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Final Margins Fellowship Reading AT Asian American Writers' Workshop, June 6th 2019, New York City. 

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Traveling Chai House- A Night of South Asian Poetry AT Chinatown Soup, 8-10 PM, May 14 2019, New York City.

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Rizzoli Bookstore, April 27th 2019, 5-7PM, New York City.

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Sweet & Sour Readings, The Chop Suey Club, April 11th 2019, New York City.

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Patchworks Theatre, New York City, 16th March 2019.

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Around Digital Media, New York City, 29th July 2018.

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Poetry in the Brew, Portland Brew East, Nashville, Jan 2018.

 

Senior Thesis Reading, Bennington College, May 2017.

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Other Writings

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Grief Became an Artifact: An Interview with Diana Khoi Nguyen, The Margins, AAWW, 2020. 

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