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PUBLICATIONS
 

"Returns,"

Puerto del Sol, 2025

"Smog Beauty,"

Colorado Review, 2024

"A Day Before Another,"

Colorado Review, 2024

"Reading Homi Bhabha Cross-legged Underneath an Apple Tree In Vermont,

Worcester Review, 2024

 

Self Portrait as a Split End Or: I Went To A College Party In Vermont On Pakistan’s 70th Independence Day After Reading Homi Bhabha For The First Time,”

Denver Quarterly, 2024

Spectator at the Musallah,

Denver Quarterly, 2024

 

Recoveries,

Denver Quarterly, 2024

 

Heartbreak Aubade,

Toyon, 2024

"Birthday Trip,"

Poetry Northwest, 2024. 

Excerpt from CYCLE, A Mouth Holds Many Things, 

A De-Canon Hybrid Literary Anthology, Fonograf Editions, 2024.

"After::Elegy,"

Madison Review, 2024.

"Isolation,"

Madison Review, 2024.

"This Time, Last Time,"

Pleiades, 2023. 

 

“There's a wave coming. One can hear it in the sky," 

Crown Sonnet, Collaborative Poetry, Miami Dade, 2023  

"Elegy:: Missing the Trigger of Winter Now Triggers You,"

Islandia Review,  2023. 

"Good," 

Nation, 2022.

"Exodus,"

Guernica, 2022. 

"Miami,"

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

"All Along, I Laid, Halved,"

Poem-a-day, Poets.org, June 2021

"Ail,"

The Journal, 2022. 

'"Aubade," 

The Journal, 2022. 

 

"Diary Entry: 25th April 2020. Lahore."

Washington Square Review, 2022

"Erasure,"

Booth, 2021

"Blub,"

Mikrokosmos Journal, 2021

"Love & Self. In Ten Acts," 

Quarterly West, 2021

"Fundraiser,"

Madison Review, 2021 

"War Of Bargain," 

The Offing, 2021

“Lahore’s Morning New York’s Night,

Gulf Coast, 2021  

"God & You In Shadowplay,"

Miracle Monocle, 2021

"Ohhh,"

Black Warrior Review, 2021.


“Dank,”

Meridian, 2021 

"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

"Accessory,"

Counter-clock, 2020. 

"Sapped,"

Far-Near Media, 2020. 

"Diary Entry: 16th May 2020. Lahore,

Rabbit: A Journal of Non-fiction poetry, 2020. 

"Small Fry,"

Southern Indiana Review, 2020. 

"SI Unit" &  "Gene Wilder," 

Brooklyn Review, 2020.

"Apprehensions,"

Yalobusha Review, 2020. 

"I Grew Up Watching Anime,"

Cagibi, 2020.

"Bird Fight,"

Apogee Journal, 2020.

"Smothering A Mothering" & "Associating the Disassociating,"

Wilderness, 2020.

"Sport," &"Disassociation,"

Epiphany, 2020. 

"Marathons Are Run for Causes,"

Brooklyn Poets, 2019.

2 Poems,

Hobart Pulp, 2019 .

7 Photopoems,

IDK Magazine, 2019.

""Obstacle Sleep,"" & "Apple," 

Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, 2018.

"Urgent Telegram to a Time Being,"

thetinymag, 2018.

"Moments,"

Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, 2018.

"Proof",

Cherry Tree, Issue 4, 2018.

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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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