In the Winter, We Burn & They Mistake It for Warmth

Things I Imagine My Father Hears in His Sleep

The One Color that the Afghan Flag Has that the Kurdish Flag Doesn't is Black

Hajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born, Afghan Kurdish poet. She is currently the 2017 Detroit Youth Poet Laureate and a First Wave Scholar at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she studies creative writing, Arabic, and Persian. She spends most of her time avoiding running from herself.