aiman tahir khan
ایمن طاہر خان
poems2026Crooked, Curse of the Love Sweater, Haibun for the End of December, the minnesota review (forthcoming)The Lovers, The RumpusLetter, Steps, Shō Poetry Journal2025Fruit Salad, Litany [As I Reach For You], The Aleph ReviewEtiology, The Poet Says Imagine God as a Bladeless Knife with No Handle, Bird Watching in the City of the Prophet, Diode PoetryRemembrance, Nimrod International JournalLow Heat, Harpur PalatePostcard from La Mer Beach, DXB, Nashville ReviewLove, Do Not Ask, Muzzle Magazine2024In My Dreams It Snows In Lahore, MudRoomKintsugi, The ShoreRivers of Milk, Penn ReviewKeepsakes, WildnessOnly in a Dream, Rust and Moth-anthologiesLate Spring Sonnet and Four Poems, the Second Edition of Poetry in English from Pakistan (forthcoming)Someday I’ll Love Aiman Tahir Khan, Only in a Dream, Jashn: Pakistan Youth Poet Laureate Anthology-other publicationsSmall Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail, book review, Colorado ReviewHow Alone, The Moon And Two Poems by Sara Shagufta, translations, Lakeer MagazineOn Basant And The City, an essay, Dunya DigitalA Place to Return: Reflections on Yi Yi, a film diary, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape-honors & affiliationsNomination, Best New Poets 2026Poetry Mentor, Lakeer Magazine, Summer 2026Workshop Facilitator, Writing Silence at LUMS Young Writers Workshop, Summer 2026Poetry Reader, Quarterly WestHonourable Mention, Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize, 2025Fellow, Brooklyn Poets, Fall 2025Workshop Facilitator, Forms of Longing at Kitab Ghar Karachi, Summer 2025Finalist, Hayden’s Ferry Review Poetry Contest 2025Associate Poetry Editor, Sontag MagPoetry Mentor, Lakeer Magazine, Summer 2025Translations Reader, The Adroit JournalInaugural Pakistan National Youth Poet Laureate 2024–25
aiman tahir khan
ایمن طاہر خان
Aiman Tahir Khan is a writer and translator from Lahore, Pakistan. She was selected as the inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate of Pakistan in 2024. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod International Journal, The Rumpus, and Shō Poetry Journal, among others, and were finalists for the Hayden’s Ferry Review Poetry Contest (2025). She currently serves as Associate Poetry Editor at Sontag Magazine.Her work has received support from Brooklyn Poets, the South Asian Literature in Translation Project, and the Peepul Press. She has taught workshops with Kitab Ghar Karachi, Lakeer Magazine, and the LUMS Young Writers Workshop.She is probably in a park somewhere, pointing her bird app at trees.You can reach her here.