Hannan Kahn’s poem "we grade each and everything here" is a stark critique of rigid education, cultural control, and silenced identity. Through haunting classroom imagery, the poem exposes the toll of perfectionism, gender norms, suppressed emotion, conformity, and institutionalized obedience.

In "Halwa for Hymen," Hannan Khan confronts silence, shame, and survival—poetry that reshapes kitchens into confessionals and exposes the haunting recipes tradition forces women to swallow.