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Roberto Carlos Garcia
Poet, Essayist, Translator, Rabblerouser
About Roberto Carlos Garcia
Garcia is associate professor of English at Union College of Union County NJ. He writes poetry and prose about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-Diasporic experience. His work has been published widely in places like Poetry Magazine, NACLA, Poets & Writers, The Root, and others. Garcia is a 2023 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellow and the author of five books. Four poetry collections: Melancolía (Cervena Barva Press, 2016), black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018), [Elegies] (Flower Song Press, 2020), What Can I Tell You: Selected Poems (Flower Song Press, 2022), and one essay collection, Traveling Freely, (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press 2024). Garcia is the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing, a literary nonprofit.
interviews & book reviews
In ‘Traveling Freely,’ Roberto Carlos Garcia Urges Us to Examine Our Lives and Know Our History
“Wherever I Am, I’m Black First”: A Conversation with Roberto Carlos García
All That Connection: A Conversation with Roberto Carlos Garcia
Under Pressure: Roberto Carlos Garcia
What Can I Tell You Asks Hard Questions
A Mixtape of Grief, Blackness, and Love: On Roberto Carlos García’s [Elegies]
“When Are We Not Grieving?”: A Review of Roberto Carlos Garcia’s [Elegies]
Exhaust the Little Moment: A Review of Roberto Carlos Garcia’s [Elegies]
[Elegies] by Roberto Carlos Garcia
A REVIEW OF ROBERTO CARLOS GARCIA’S [ELEGIES]
LATINO BOOK REVIEW
Interviews & book reviews
