Ep. 5 "Failing Relentlessly" with Carlos Andrés Gómez
Reach the Stars Podcast
English - August 29, 2020 16:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBArts Business Entrepreneurship inspiring stories dreams storytelling passion purpose persistence she persisted artist inspiring change Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On the 5th episode of Reach the Stars Podcast, travel back in time to 1999 when internationally renowned poet, author and actor, Carlos Andrés Gómez, had just discovered slam poetry. Learn about his decade of dominating the poetry slam world and his journey out of that world and into one of winning book awards instead. And learn about your host, Janna Willoughby-Lohr's own journey into and out of the slam poetry scene.
During the "Five Questions time" at the end of the show, Carlos talks about his unique attitude towards failure and how he believes that it is necessary to fail in order to accomplish anything.
Carlos's long-awaited, full-length poetry book, Fractures, is the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, is due out in October 2020 and you can pre-order your copy here: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5990.htm
His chapbook, HIJITO, was the winner of the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal, IndieReader Discovery Award, Broken River Prize & the International Book Award for Poetry.
Order HIJITO (#1 SPD Bestseller): https://platypuspress.co.uk/hijito
And (as if he wasn't awesome enough), his OTHER best-selling book, a memoir called Man Up--Reimagining Modern Manhood, can be purchased here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311620/man-up-by-carlos-andres-gomez/9781592408078
And in case you have never heard his poems out loud, go here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1593846697582433&extid=7cY8LLRWmxbbMsdF
https://youtu.be/IObvCZs2lF4
Find out more about Carlos here:
http://www.carloslive.com
http://www.instagram.com/carloslive
BIO: Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor, and author of Fractures, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Hijito, winner of the Broken River Prize and a #1 SPD bestseller, and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House. A star of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, TV One’s Verses and Flow, and Spike Lee’s #1 box office movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Carlos’ honors include the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, Foreword INDIES Gold Medal, and the International Book Award for Poetry. A genre-transcending multi-hyphenate, he partnered with John Legend on Senior Orientation, a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students. Carlos is a proud Latinx and father.