When: Thursday, November 2 at 5:30pm
Where: 132 Goldwin Smith Hall
Carlos Andrés Gómez (http://carloslive.com/), award-winning poet, actor, speaker, and writer from New York City will be doing a public performance on
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017 @ 5:30 PM
POST PERFORMANCE RECEPTION: 164 KLARMAN HALL
A former social worker and public school teacher, Carlos has lectured and performed at more than 500 colleges and universities, facilitated countless workshops, and delivered numerous keynotes and commencement addresses. He continues to tour the globe.
He is the author of the coming-of-age memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House. Named 2016 Best Diversity Artist by Campus Activities Magazine and Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, Carlos costarred in Spike Lee’s #1 movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen. He appeared in the sixth season of HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and in the third season of TV One’s Verses and Flow.
Sponsored by Latina/o Studies Program with support provided by Society for the Humanities, Cornell , American Studies, Romance Studies, History of Art & Visual Studies, Department of Comparative Literature.
