Carlos Andrés Gómez

Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet from New York City who has performed at more than 1,500 colleges, universities, schools, and festivals in 28 countries across six continents. A two-time International Poetry Slam Champion, his poetry collection "Fractures" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal and the International Book Award, Gómez has been published in The Nation, New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Yale Review, BuzzFeed Reader, "Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World" (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), and elsewhere. A star of HBO’s "Def Poetry Jam" and the Spike Lee movie "Inside Man" with Denzel Washington, Carlos is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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