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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.

About Carlos Andres Gomez

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 2018 Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, 2019 Fischer National Poetry Prize, 2015 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the 2019 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, 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

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“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)

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...

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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...

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“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...

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Rooted.

Purpose is the driving force of my life: I have always moved with intention, intensity, even a voracious deliberateness. Like others, these tendencies are perhaps now supercharged by the confluence of griefs, losses, and existential...

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Award for our short film, “Beating Traffic”!

When my primary craft was basketball (before my career peaked in 8th grade), I made sure to play with folks who were unquestionably better, stronger, more skilled than I was. As an artist now, I...

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#ArtistsAcrossBorders goes to Dublin, Ireland!

Since founding it in 2003, Brent Shuttleworth and I have done #ArtistsAcrossBorders, which seeks to bring together artists from different linguistic, cultural, and creative backgrounds to come together and create an original piece to be...

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Fractures teaches us the past is always inflecting the present. In poems as charged as they are exquisitely made, Gómez offers us the chance to appreciate searching for 'the exact day / [he] stopped dreaming in the language / that sings [his] name.' But its true gift, its true power, is the way it transforms loss and sadness into something triumphant.”
—C. Dale Young

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To stream/download VOLTA, click HERE
Carlos' new studio album, Volta, his latest collaboration with his best friend/musician/producer, Brent Shuttleworth, and GRAMMY® Award–winning record producer, Joe West.

 


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