Author: Carlos Andrés Gómez

Beloveds! Friends! Some news. 🌻

My second full-length poetry collection will be arriving next September (2027) from Four Way Books. I’ve been working on this book for nearly 6 years, and I could not be more ecstatic for it find a home with this iconic publisher and brilliant, generous team.

“Brutal Miracle” confronts the atrocities, raptures, complicities, and fragile joys of our present day through the lens of fatherhood. Reckoning with masculinity, memory, and all the sharp and tender edges of our iniquitous world, it asks: What resides on the other side of survival? What do we owe to the lineages we shape?

Speaking of lineage (literary), the roster of Four Way authors over the past 30 years who have shaped not just who I am as a writer but the entirety of the poetic canon is mind-blowing: Rigoberto González, Monica Youn, Gregory Pardlo, Tina Chang, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Yona Harvey, Tommye Blount, Kevin Prufer, Cynthia Cruz, Cyrus Cassells, Eugenia Leigh, one of my most cherished mentors, C. Dale Young, and so, so many others. It’s beyond anything I could have dreamed to see my book join that list of luminaries.

I know this next book is long overdue, and I’m terrified as always, but I cannot wait for you to meet this book. ✨ ✨ ✨

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Such a wild & strange time to be partnering with organizations & companies & delivering keynotes & finding ways to energize & inspire teams that are facing mounting burnout and a confluence of uncertainties, so it means a lot to be nominated for NACE Speaker of the Year for the 3rd year (!!) in a row.

I don’t care what happens with AI, nothing can electrify a space, and cohere a room of strangers, like authenticity, vulnerability, real connection, and the vibration of a human voice rippling through a venue.

May we continue to recognize & uplift the deeper wisdom of what is possible when we gather in spaces together, in real time and in person.

May I see you soon in the actual, breathing world.

Heartfelt thank you to NACE for recognizing and honoring my work.

With gratitude,
Carlos

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Join me for the book launch of “Patrilineation” on Wed., Aug. 19th in Santa Barbara, CA with Brent Ameneyro (it’s free!).

After that, I’ll be hitting the road with my books in tow doing performances, keynotes, artist residencies, author talk backs, workshops, and more.

As of now, I have scheduled events in NV, WA, IN, IL, MA, MI, NJ, PA, & several more that are pending.

If you’d like to bring me to your college, independent school, company, organization, or conference, please DM me ASAP (or use the link below). The calendar is filling up, but I am still plugging in available dates while I still have them.

Excited to be in conversation with folks about the themes in this book which revolve around masculinity, dismantling shame, tenderness, lineage, breaking destructive cycles, healing, and building the world we want for the generations to come.

Hope to see you and catch up very soon,
Carlos

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