Kundiman (nonprofit organization)

[1] The organization’s name refers to a style of Filipino love song, kundiman, that served as veiled patriotism during colonial times.

For months afterward, members of the Kundiman network would meet and discuss internally about the aforementioned events.

In May of the following year, over a hundred Kundiman Fellows, including Ocean Vuong and Solmaz Sharif, signed and published an open letter to the Kundiman board calling for their resignation due to the organization's conflicted posture and their failure to meet certain demands.

[6] In September of 2024, Kundiman announced that Kazim Ali and David Mura would join the organization's board of trustees.

[13] Altogether, Kundiman Fellows have published 311 books and counting, as well as pieces in literary magazines like The New Yorker, Colorado Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New York Times, and more.