For 2024, Kundiman organized our annual Postcard Poem Exchange during National Poetry Month to promote poetry within our daily lives and communities. The theme for this year was “Imagining AAPI Futures,” in honor of Kundiman’s 20th anniversary and our organization’s growth from grassroots beginnings.

Kundiman’s postcard-writing project has historically been a part of the Poetry Coalition’s annual programming centered around a theme of social importance. For the eighth year, we continued the tradition of writing and mailing postcard poems, and engaging with the theme.

For 2023, the theme was, “and so much lost you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief,” inspired by Ed Roberson’s poem “once the magnolia has blossomed.” The Poetry Coalition invited us to consider how poetry can inspire conversations about grief.

For our seventh year, we continued our Postcard Project tradition of sending postcard poems everyday throughout the month of March. Click here for our postcard gallery, readings, and prompts.

Kundiman also hosted a 1-day poetry workshop "Writing Grief: Somatic Rituals for Revision” with Rona Luo.

In 2022, the theme was “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice,” from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s poem, “Femme Futures.” Poetry Coalition members intended to uplift how poets can provoke questions around disability justice and imagining new futures. 

For the sixth year, we continued our Postcard Project tradition. Kundiman also hosted a Poetics of Disability Justice workshop with Em Dial and Laurel Chen, where attendees were presented with a thoughtful space meant to center disabled experiences. Click here for our postcard gallery, readings, and prompts.

In 2021, the theme was, “It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.: Poetry & Environmental Justice” from the poem “Map” by Linda Hogan. Poetry Coalition members came together to share how poetry can provoke questions about environmental justice and to encourage engagement with this crucial topic. Each week, we sent out prompts and suggested reading on the theme of environmental justice. Click here for our postcard gallery and here for our weekly prompts and suggested readings.

In 2020, Kundiman partnered with more than 25 other literary organizations in the national alliance, Poetry Coalition. This year’s project focused on the theme “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing: Poetry & Protest” — a line from Audre Lorde’s poem, “New Year’s Day.” Click here for our postcard gallery.

In 2019, we invited four artists to craft an action calendar exploring topics of Asian American Immigration, Documentation, Activism, and Solidarity. We also invited fellows to write and share poetry postcards. Click here for the action calendar, and here for postcard gallery.