Join Kundiman Midwest for "A Night in Brooklyn," a fiction and poetry reading in Chicago featuring three Brooklyn-based writers: Jeremy Gordon, R. A. Villanueva, and Tyriek White.

This event will take place on Friday, August 22nd from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT at Pilsen Community Books (1102 W. 18th St., Chicago, IL).

Jeremy Gordon is the author of See Friendship, which was released in March by Harper Perennial. He's a senior editor on the culture desk at The Atlantic, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Pitchfork, The Nation, and The Outline. He lives in Brooklyn.

R. A. Villanueva is the author of two collections of poetry: A Holy Dread, winner of the Alice James Award (forthcoming in 2026) and Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. New work has been featured by the Academy of American Poets and National Public Radio—and his writing appears widely in international publications such as Poetry London and The Poetry Review. His honors include commendations from the Forward Prizes, and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Tyriek White is a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of We Are A Haunting (Astra House, 2023), winner of The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. The novel was also a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction; and longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. In 2024, he was named a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Literary Foundation, which seeks to provide mutual aid and various resources to Black writers across the diaspora.