Carlos Andrés Gómez
Carlos is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, and inclusion strategist from New York City. He is the author of Fractures, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Hijito, winner of the Broken River Prize. 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 is also a proud father of two.
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Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian-American poet, speaker, actor and author of a wonderful poetry book titled “Hijito” & “Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood”.
Carlos spills out the beans of his life as a poetry performer in New York, he talks about his relationship with his mother tongue, his early inspiration to poetry as well as a unique learning experience at the Apollo!
Special thanks to Emirates Airline Festival of Literature for inviting The Poetryhood to be a part of the outstanding festival that they’ve setup in 2020 and for facilitating this podcast recording with Carlos.