And with that—after a flurry of recent gigs in Mississippi, Montana, Hawai’i, & Idaho—I’ve now keynoted or performed in all 50 U.S. states. Took nearly a quarter century to do so, but here we are. Some highlights from...
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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, the 2023 Rubery International Book Award, and the 2024 North American 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; Circling Fatherhood, winner of the 2024 Poetry International Chapbook Prize; 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 all 50 U.S. states and headlined events in 29 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 2025 and 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)
Love you, Andrea Gibson.
I don’t remember the first time I met Andrea (like many I love, as though we’ve always been—and will remain—in each other’s orbit), but early on, while very much a (college) kid, at some National...
For the second year in a row, I’ve been nominated for NACE Speaker of the Year.
For the second year in a row, I’ve been nominated for NACE Speaker of the Year. It took me years to identify as a speaker (though that’s, increasingly, so much of what I do: delivering...
Legendary night in San José with Mighty Mike McGee, Tshaka Campbell, & Rudy Francisco
This show in San José with Rudy Francisco, Destiny Muhammad, and Derrick Sanderlin fed my heart and spirit. I am so grateful to Tshaka Campbell, who I have been lucky enough to call a friend...
On the precipice of July 4th—
On the precipice of July 4th—in a time when our American tax dollars directly fund the erasure of human and constitutional rights and the disappearance of human beings (as a result of our missiles or...
An epic show in Shibuya to close out my spring tour in Tokyo, Japan
東京で私を特集してくださった、そしてとても寛大で親切なホストになってくださった Yuuri Miki さん、ShaLonさん、そして Kotoba Slam Japan さんに心から感謝いたします。 Haruka Tunnel さん、この度はコラボレーションできて本当に光栄でした。将来、私の本の日本語訳でご一緒できれば幸いです。あなたの細やかな配慮、細部へのこだわり、そして文学的な輝きには、本当に驚かされます。 What an indelible 2 and a half weeks in Japan with the family. What a gift to get to perform in Tokyo (Shibuya, of...
