When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.

Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.