Ayesha Raees

HELLO FRIENDS — I NEED ADVICE.

The uni I was affiliated with in Pakistan, made sure I did all the work over the summer (including late grading), and still hasn’t paid me. They are now ghosting my emails.

I want to tell my story. Looking for journalists in Pakistan/USA who’d help create that space.

Thank you! @joannemerriam.bsky.social

Maybe starting a fourth book of poems isn’t the wisest but why do I stop my prolific nature when this nature allows me to process life

Thinking of this tree

beautiful yella flower with prominent stamens

godzilla plastic figure fights some other monster on moss

explosion of vaguely dicklike wooden mushrooms rigid outta the back of a wooden bench... oh portland

lovely white lily with large yellow rod in middle

Around Portland, Southeast edition...

No more chai no more chai no more chai no more chai

this was accidentally my first post here but it feels right no regrets

Not proud of this but I only ate samosas today. My whole day was made up of 5 samosas. I am sorry my beautiful body. I am sorry.

Generative AI is not an assistive device because being a bad writer is not a disability.

We are all so so tired and in need of rest and safety and we keep trying with our lives and with each other and keep realizing everyone else is also so exhausted everyone also is looking for a safe space to rest for a little while how can we give shade to each other when we are all on fire?

End of everything I fell in love with/ becoming archaic when still so young/ to rehash a dream because the world is dead/ running away to analogue asap

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New poem in @coloradoreview.bsky.social thank you thank you

Lol

can you get viral here

INTERVIEW WITH Ayesha Raees Ayesha Raees’ fabulist and fable-like chapbook, Coining a Wishing Tower (Platypus Press Broken River Prize winner, 2020, selected by Kaveh Akbar), is composed of 56 prose-like blocks—give or a tak...

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Thank you wonderful
@cleoqian.bsky.social
and Four way book
for letting me talk about ‘Coining A Wishing Tower’ a book that brings me so much wonder still.

#poetry #poet #litmag

OK i am HERE.