How can the work we do as writers contribute to building sustainable and inclusive futures for our communities? How can the work of leading community organizations contribute to our creative work? And how can the arts serve as a tool of empowerment, liberation, and solidarity? Literary organizations like Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Kundiman, Indigenous Nations Poets, Fire & Ink, Mizna, and Radius of Arab American Writers, were convened with the goal of creating spaces for marginalized writers to develop their craft and find community and connection with one another. On the occasion of Kundiman’s 20th anniversary, join us for this reading and conversation hosted by Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, featuring George Abraham (executive editor of Mizna and Kundiman Fellow), Samiya Bashir (founding organizer of Fire & Ink and Cave Canem Fellow), Kimberly Blaeser (founding executive director of Indigenous Nations Poets), Cathy Linh Che (executive director of Kundiman), Deborah Paredez (co-founder of CantoMundo), and Glenn Shaheen (president and executive director of the Radius of Arab American Writers) as they read from their work and discuss what it means to lead, create, and write, centering the idea “not one without the other.”

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