I’ve been a featured poet and headliner at festivals all over the world (more than a dozen countries), Split This Rock in DC, the Brooklyn Book Festival, and I’d never seen anything like the lineup...
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Carlos partnered with John Legend on Senior Orientation, a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students.
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, the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal, 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 1,500 colleges, universities, independent schools, and companies in 47 U.S. states and headlined events in 28 countries across six continents.
Named 2021 Georgia Author of the Year by the Georgia Writers Association, 2016 Best Diversity Artist by Campus Activities Magazine, Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, and a 2024 NACE Speaker of the Year nominee, Gómez is widely known for his viral poems, “What Latino Looks Like,” “Where are you really from?” and others, which have garnered more than 12 million views online. Carlos is one of the highest booked acts in the history of the college market and among the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world.
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.
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“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 Latino Looks Like” (Viral poem with more than 2.2 million views)
“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)
“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)
the long-awaited release of our award-winning short film: “Abuelita”
A couple of years back, Joe West, Brent Shuttleworth, and I hatched this idea to make a visually-stunning experimental short film of our track “Abuelita” (from my album, “Opus,” which was produced by Joe and...
Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Guanacaste, Costa Rica
These five days in Guanacaste, Costa Rica for my Playa Flamingo Writing Residency have been such an incredible recharge and allowed me to make a huge leap in my poetry manuscript in progress. A heartfelt...
I’ve been nominated for 2024 NACE Speaker of the Year!
I am humbled & honored to be nominated for 2024 NACE Speaker of the Year. My calendar is absolutely absurd right now, but I’m trying to find a way to get to Denver later this...
A bucket list trip a lifetime in the making
A bucket list trip a lifetime in the making: relishing and savoring these past few weeks in Rio and Bahia. A trip I have dreamed of for so long. I lived in Brasil when I...
an unfathomable landmark—my 100th award.
The first time I walked off stage after a very shaky performance at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the fall of 1999, I set one of my wildest intentions into the universe: rock the crowd...
