Embodied Connection: A Dodge Poetry Festival Reading with Kundiman

Join Kundiman for this special reading at the 2026 Dodge Poetry Festival. How can a poetics of kinship inform or transform our understanding of community? How does writing about our connections with others help us navigate the social and political structures of our world? Join Kundiman for this reading featuring poets Fatimah Asghar, Sanam Sheriff, and R. A. Villanueva, whose works explore embodiment, presence, and connection. This reading is part of the Dodge Poetry Festival, so please get tickets for the festival in order to join us for our reading. Visit NJPAC’s website to learn more about the event and how to purchase festival passes: https://www.njpac.org/series/dodge-poetry-festival/ We hope to see you there! Fatimah Asghar is an artist who spans across different genres and themes. They have been featured in various outlets such as TIME, NPR, Teen Vogue and the Forbes 30 Under 30 List. Their first book of poems was If They Come For Us and their debut novel, When We Were Sisters,