Just got word my poem, “Double Golden Shovel Sonnet Found on the Q Train,” was selected by January Gill O’Neil as the winner of the 2024 Yeats International Poetry Prize—some reflections on interconnectedness & the...
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CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, and author of Fractures, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, as well as winner of the 2021 Midwest Book Award for Poetry, the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry, the 2022 IAN Book of the Year Award for Poetry, and the 2023 Rubery International Book Award; Hijito, selected by Eduardo C. Corral as the winner of the 2018 Broken River Prize, as well as winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Gold Medal in Poetry, the 2020 IndieReader Discovery Award, the 2020 International Book Award, and a #1 SPD bestseller; and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, a finalist for the UK’s 2022 Page Turner International Book Award that was released by Penguin Random House. A star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, TV One’s Verses and Flow, and Spike Lee’s #1 box office movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Carlos has delivered keynotes and done engagements at more than 1,000 colleges, universities, independent schools, and companies in 47 U.S. states and headlined events in 27 countries across six continents.
Named 2021 Georgia Author of the Year by the Georgia Writers Association, 2016 Best Diversity Artist by Campus Activities Magazine, and Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, Gómez is widely known for his viral poems, “What Latino Looks Like,” “Where are you really from?” and others, which have garnered more than 10 million views online.
Winner of the 2024 Yeats International Poetry Prize, 2019 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, 2015 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, 2019 Fischer National Poetry Prize, and the 2018 Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, Carlos is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is a proud father of two.
CARLOS’ PRESS KIT: (Schools: click here / Companies: click here)
“Carlos was by far the most engaging and inspiring poet I have ever seen.”
–Drew Donica, Lawrence University
“Powerful and tear-jerking…a mind-blowing, perspective-changing experience.”
–Shannon Busta, Cord Weekly
“***** (5/5 stars) — Gómez lays himself bare…a quarter of the audience shed tears yet the show was uplifting.”
–Bernie Greenwood, Hairline Magazine
“Mi Gente” (Short film directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa)
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“What is Genocide?” (Viral poem with more than 1.1 million views)
“Where are you really from?” (Viral poem with more than 2 million views)
Keynoting for 1,200 passionate young people with this kind of energy will never get old!
Getting on stage in front of 1,200 passionate young leaders with this kind of energy will never get old. What an honor and joy to be your keynote for #PNWDCon2024 in Portland at the @oregonconventioncenter...
Reflecting on my Arts Envoy trip to ព្រែកទាល់ Prek Toal, Cambodia
I am reflecting on my awe-inspiring week in Cambodia as part of the Great Lake Poets Express, alongside Wayne McCallum, Kosal Khiev, and Kristin Schuster (from Writing Through). I’ve worked with thousands of students over...
World premiere of our concert film, “The Next Movement” (now airing on PBS!), at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights!
What a balm to celebrate last Tuesday night at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights for the premiere of our concert film, “The Next Movement” (now airing on PBS!). We had a fantastic panel and closed...
“Fractures” is the winner of the 2023 Rubery International Book Award!
Like many artists, I have a fraught relationship with accolades. Or, as one of my brilliant mentors, Alan Shapiro, once called them: “cotton candythey disappear almost as quickly as you taste the sweetness.” That being...