Join us for an evening of nourishing and stimulating conversations about family and legacy. Carlos will be reading from both his award-winning poetry collection and some new pieces of work. You’ll have the opportunity to purchase his book and have it signed at the completion of our event! We hope you’ll join us for this wonderful opportunity.
The event will be held at our book beer bar, Oldspeak, in Garden City! Event is free to attend but please RSVP to help with head count. Please note our venue is 21+.
About Fractures:
In his landmark debut, Carlos Andrés Gómez interrogates race, gender, sexuality, and violence to explore some of the most pressing issues of our time. These poems address the complexities and nuances of toxic masculinity, assimilation, homophobia, and the joy and anguish of trying to raise Black children in America. Gómez casts an uncompromising eye toward both brutality and tenderness, going where we are most uncomfortable and lingering in moments of introspection that reveal fear, grief, or hatred. Birthed at a breaking point, these poems carve open silence, revealing fissures that welcome the light. Unflinching, poignant, and powerful, Fractures is both a gut punch and a balm.
Featured Author: Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet and author from New York City. A star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and the Spike Lee movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Carlos is the International Book Award-winning author of several books, including the poetry collection Fractures, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House.
Host: Cristina Houston is a long-time facilitator, writer, community cultivator, and presently the Director of Programs for The Lit Room.
