Ayesha Raees
@skunkbabepoet.bsky.social
Poet & Word + Image.
Ass. Poetry Editor
@aaww
"Coining A Wishing Tower" winner of Broken River Prize.
Ass. Poetry Editor
@aaww
"Coining A Wishing Tower" winner of Broken River Prize.
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.
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.
August 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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.
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
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Coining a Wishing Tower by Ayesha Raees (Radix Press) & Now You Know Me: Seeing the Unhidden Truth in Settler Colonialism by k'ʷunəmɛn Joe Gallagher & John Matterson (Hancock House). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky @skunkbabepoet.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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
August 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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
June 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Thinking of this tree
Reposted by Ayesha Raees
Around Portland, Southeast edition...
June 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Around Portland, Southeast edition...
No more chai no more chai no more chai no more chai
February 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
No more chai no more chai no more chai no more chai
Reposted by Ayesha Raees
this was accidentally my first post here but it feels right no regrets
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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.
February 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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.
Reposted by Ayesha Raees
Generative AI is not an assistive device because being a bad writer is not a disability.
September 3, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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?
January 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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
UCLA is creating an entirely AI-generated course. Except apparently the grading won't be AI-generated. 🤔
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system
The textbook for Zrinka Stahuljak’s winter 2025 course is generated by the Kudu platform.
newsroom.ucla.edu
December 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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
Reposted by Ayesha Raees
Our #PoetryTuesday reading period has been EXTENDED, from December 15 to December 18! You have a few more days to share your work with our dear poetry editors, Emily Jungmin Yon and @skunkbabepoet.bsky.social!
💌 aaww.org/submit
#poetrysubmissions #openreadingperiod
💌 aaww.org/submit
#poetrysubmissions #openreadingperiod
December 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Our #PoetryTuesday reading period has been EXTENDED, from December 15 to December 18! You have a few more days to share your work with our dear poetry editors, Emily Jungmin Yon and @skunkbabepoet.bsky.social!
💌 aaww.org/submit
#poetrysubmissions #openreadingperiod
💌 aaww.org/submit
#poetrysubmissions #openreadingperiod
Reposted by Ayesha Raees
Applications now open for the Community of Writers Summer Workshop in Olympic Valley, way up in the Sierras of California. Runs July 7-July 14. Check out the staff roster and see if the workshop is right for you.
communityofwriters.org/workshops/wr...
communityofwriters.org/workshops/wr...
Summer Writers Workshops
2025 Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, and Memoir
July 7-14, 2025
The Writers Workshops is a seven-day program which assists serious writers by exploring the art and craft ...
communityofwriters.org
December 2, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Applications now open for the Community of Writers Summer Workshop in Olympic Valley, way up in the Sierras of California. Runs July 7-July 14. Check out the staff roster and see if the workshop is right for you.
communityofwriters.org/workshops/wr...
communityofwriters.org/workshops/wr...
New poem in @coloradoreview.bsky.social thank you thank you
December 2, 2024 at 10:37 PM
New poem in @coloradoreview.bsky.social thank you thank you
can you get viral here
September 20, 2023 at 1:57 AM
can you get viral here
fourwayreview.com/interview-wi...
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
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
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...
fourwayreview.com
September 18, 2023 at 4:16 AM
fourwayreview.com/interview-wi...
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
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