{"id":23880,"date":"2025-04-16T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:56:04","slug":"an-evening-with-carlos-andres-gomez-a-colombian-american-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/an-evening-with-carlos-andres-gomez-a-colombian-american-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening with Carlos Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez, a Colombian American Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geisinger College of Health Science and Office of Diversity Initiatives at Wilkes invites you to<\/p>\n<p>An evening with Carlos Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez, original work presentation<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>April 23, 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>6 \u2013 7:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geisinger College of Health Sciences Auditorium<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This poetry slam performance is free and open to the public and will be followed by a<br \/>\nbook signing with Carlos.<\/li>\n<li>You do not want to miss his performance!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About Carlos Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez<\/strong><br \/>\nCarlos Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez is a poet, speaker, actor and educator from New York City. He is the<br \/>\nauthor of\u00a0<em>Fractures<\/em>, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry;\u00a0<em>Hijito<\/em>, winner of the Broken River<br \/>\nPrize and a No. 1 Small Press Distribution bestseller;\u00a0<em>Circling Fatherhood<\/em>, winner of the Poetry<br \/>\nInternational Chapbook Prize; and the memoir\u00a0<em>Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A star of HBO\u2019s\u00a0<em>Def Poetry Jam<\/em>, TV One\u2019s\u00a0<em>Verses and Flow<\/em>, and Spike Lee\u2019s No. 1 box office<br \/>\nmovie\u00a0<em>Inside Man<\/em>\u00a0with Denzel Washington, Carlos is one of the highest booked acts in the<br \/>\nhistory of the college market and among the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos\u2019 honors include the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, Foreword INDIES Book of<br \/>\nthe Year Award, Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, North American Book Award Gold<br \/>\nMedal and the International Book Award for Poetry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 also a proud father of two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carloslive.com\/\">his website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p>For more information,, contact Alejandra Marroquin: <a href=\"mailto:amarroquin@geisinger.edu\">amarroquin@geisinger.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geisinger College of Health Science and Office of Diversity Initiatives at Wilkes invites you to An evening with Carlos Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez, original work presentation April 23, 2025 6 \u2013 7:00 p.m. Geisinger College of Health Sciences Auditorium This poetry slam performance is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/an-evening-with-carlos-andres-gomez-a-colombian-american-poet\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An evening with Carlos Andr\u00e9s G\u00f3mez, a Colombian American Poet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23898,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions\/23898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}