Carlos Andrés Gómez
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Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet from New York City. His poetry collection Fractures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal and the International Book Award for poetry, Gómez has been published in The Nation, New England Review, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, The Yale Review, BuzzFeed Reader, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (W. W. Norton, 2022), and elsewhere. Carlos is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He can be found on Instagram @CarlosAGLive, Bluesky, YouTube, Tumblr, and CarlosLive.com.
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Website: https://carloslive.com/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlosaglive/
Winning Entry: Gifted
Contest Won: Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest 2011, Most Highly Commended
Winning Entry: Pantoum After Today’s Mass Shooting
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2025, Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid
Winning Entry: Aperture
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2025, Honorable Mention, Tom Howard
Winning Entry: honest/clean
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2008, Honorable Mention
