Previous Circulation
New Work
Recommended Citation
Raees, Ayesha
(2024)
"Heartbreak Aubade,"
Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine: Vol. 70:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon/vol70/iss1/7
New Work
Raees, Ayesha
(2024)
"Heartbreak Aubade,"
Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine: Vol. 70:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon/vol70/iss1/7
Bio
Ayesha Raees عائشہ رئیس identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her work strongly revolves around issues of race and identity, G/god and displacement, and mental illness while possessing a strong agency for accessibility, community, and change. Raees currently serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor at AAWW's The Margins and has received fellowships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, and Kundiman. Her debut chapbook “Coining A Wishing Tower” won the Broken River Prize, judged by Kaveh Akbar, and is published by Platypus Press. From Lahore, Pakistan, she currently shifts around Lahore, New York City, and Miami.