The Pre-Professional Advising Center Hosts International Book Award-winning Poet, Author and DEI Strategist Carlos Andrés Gómez

Author and DEI Strategist Carlos Andrés Gómez will perform his original work on October 3.

Join us as Carlos Andrés Gómez performs an interactive session filled with spoken word and poetry that will explore and identify actionable strategies for making our campus more culturally responsive, affirming, accessible, and inclusive, particularly for historically marginalized people. 

The Pre-Professional Advising Center (P-PAC) welcomes all students to experience and engage in this riveting and enlightening performance as it transcends academic major, cultural backgrounds, and career tracks. This event is open to the entire Seton Hall University community. 

Carlos Andrés Gómez has been featured on NBC News, TED Talks, People magazine, Forbes, The NY Times, CBS, and so much more. He is the author of Hijito, for which he was awarded the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal and the International Book Award for Poetry in 2020, and the coming-of-age memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House in 2012.

His most recent book, Fractures, was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.

Hailing from New York City, Gómez has performed at nearly 800 colleges and universities in 47 U.S. states and headlined shows in 26 countries across five continents. He has been featured on NPR, TEDx, Upworthy, Central Park SummerStage, and partnered with John Legend for Senior Orientation, a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students.

A former social worker and public school teacher, Carlos first made a name for himself by winning at the Apollo Theater’s celebrated Amateur Night and later as a member of the renowned Nuyorican Poets Café’s slam team. In 2008, he collaborated with Tony Award-winning tap dance legend Savion Glover on Broadway. Gómez is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

"Carlos was by far the most engaging and inspiring poet I have ever seen." —Drew Donica, Lawrence University

Upcoming event date: 
Tuesday, October 3rd at 5 p.m., in the University Center, Chancellor’s Suite.
Guaranteed entrance for the first 100 attendees. 
Food will be included.

For more information on the author, click here.

You can also preview his work here. 

To register for this event, click here.

Categories: Arts and Culture, Education