Load Poems Like Guns

When your freedoms are curtailed, writing can be one of the few ways to express your thoughts. Sometimes metaphor is the only safe way to tell a story that needs to be told. In this program, created in collaboration with Baamdaad - House of Poetry in Exile, Afghan poet Somaia Ramish talks with writer Ishmail Kamara, about writing poetry from the perspective of a migrant and the struggle for attention to the situation in the homeland. How do you use poetry as a form of protest, and what is at stake when you do so?