003 – Talking Carlos Andrés Gómez
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Carlos Andrés Gómez Tells Us The Best Part of Every Poem
We’re talking Carlos Andrés Gómez.
Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, and equity 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, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, 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’ honors include the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, Foreword INDIES Gold Medal, and the International Book Award. A genre-transcending multi-hyphenate, he partnered with John Legend on Senior Orientation, a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students. Carlos is a proud father of two.
We’ll also get into where we’re really from, what we’re reading, and some thoughts for the road on getting vaccinated!
A quick summary of what to expect…
- Intro/Welcome
- Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Bio
- Episode Summary
- Invoking the Muse: “Where Are You Really From” by Carlos Andrés Gómez
- Conversation between Adriana & Karla on Gómez and his poetry
- More Poetry from Gómez
- An excerpt from an interview between Karla Lamb and Carlos Andrés Gómez
- The rest of Gómez’s 1/21/20 City of Asylum performance
- What Are We Reading?
- Remedios for the Road
- Goodbye and outro
EPISODE LINKS
- Remedios:
- what we’ve been reading/watching
- Other stuff
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Many thanks to Luis Alfonso for the music in this episode. Photo credit to City of Asylum.
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