The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photo…

- Eliza Griswold

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

- Eliza Griswold

If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or the leisu…

- Eliza Griswold

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

- Eliza Griswold

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music -…

- Eliza Griswold

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

- Eliza Griswold

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

- Eliza Griswold

Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their p…

- Eliza Griswold

You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wo…

- Eliza Griswold