At Quarter After Eight (QAE) readings, English graduate students take the podium to share poems, essays, short stories and excerpts from works in progress. After a brief intermission, featured guest author, poet Carlos Andrés Gómez, will take the stage.

In addition, QAE readings offer attendees a free delicious dinner of focaccia sandwiches and cookies made by the Athens Bread Company. The QAE series is funded by the  Campus Involvement Center and Ohio University’s Student Senate Appropriations Committee.

Carlos Andrés Gómez  is a Colombian American poet from New York City. His debut full-length poetry collection  Fractures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) won the 2021 Midwest Book Award for Poetry, the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal, and the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award. It was selected by Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal and the International Book Award for Poetry, Gómez has been published in New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Yale Review, BuzzFeed Reader, CHORUS: A Literary Mixtape (Simon & Schuster, 2012), and elsewhere. Gómez is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.