Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet from New York City. He is the author of the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood (Penguin Random House, 2012). He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Books by Carlos Andrés Gómez:

Other poems on the web by Carlos Andrés Gómez:
Two poems

Carlos Andrés Gómez's Website.

Carlos Andrés Gómez on Twitter.

About Hijito:

"‘One loss makes you feel all other losses,’ writes Carlos Andrés Gómez in this searing and inquisitive collection. His attentiveness to language and to pain is unflinching. Craft and empathy are inseparable; lyrical pleasures resonate with tenderness and sorrow. The poems ‘pull something usable from // the wreckage’ of performative masculinity, police brutality, and displacement. And what’s usable from misery? Gómez’s deft control of language—the syntax is nimble, the diction is zoetic—brings us close to the boundless resilience that helps us survive, change. His insistence that language can spur hope, aligns him with the visionary and still vital work of Adrienne Rich and Martín Espada. Gómez’s work confronts and rebukes, but it also sings."
—Eduardo C. Corral

"Gómez makes an impressive debut in this collection, singing of family, bullets, survival and smoke. This hijito is ‘a tiny growl / at first / that blossomed / into a wail.’"
—Tyehimba Jess

"Striking, searching, and serious, Carlos Andrés Gómez is a voice I have watched and listened to from afar for years. His poems often leap landscapes beyond the West and ask us to consider the history we have been taught and how we speak it and carry it in our bodies. There is an earned depth and urgency to Gómez as a poet."
—Raymond Antrobus

"Carlos Andrés Gómez is a poet with the courage and skill to look beyond what we think we know and reach toward less comfortable, more nuanced understandings of the turmoil that surrounds us and the turmoil within us. That talent—both honest and humane—shines through these poems and makes Hijito a deeply resonant and moving achievement."
—Matthew Olzmann