Episode 7: Hajjar Baban
Today's episode was originally published on the Halal Metropolis Podcast.
Sally Howell interviews award-winning poet Hajjar Baban about her chapbooks Relative to Blood and What I Know of the Mountains. Baban discusses how she got her start in poetry and the themes she explores within her writing: identity, religion, language, displacement, and place.
Hajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish Poet. A 2021 PD Soros Fellow and current MFA in Poetry candidate at the University of Virginia, she has poems appearing in Mizna, BAHR Magazine and the Southeast Review. You can read her work here: hajjarbaban.com.
