About

Roberto Carlos Garcia is a 2023 NJ State Council of the Arts Fellow. He is the author of five books, including four poetry collections—Melancolía (Cervena Barva Press, 2016); black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric (Willow Books, 2018); [Elegies] (FlowerSong Press, 2020); and the recently published What Can I Tell You: The Selected Poems of Roberto Carlos Garcia (Flowersong Press, 2022)—and one essay collection, Traveling Freely, forthcoming in 2024 from Northwestern University Press. Roberto is the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing, a literary nonprofit.

He writes about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-Diasporic experience. His work has been published widely in places like Poetry Magazine, NACLA, Poets & Writers, The Root, The BreakBeat Poets Vol 4: LatiNEXT, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3., and others.

Roberto is the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing, a literary nonprofit.

Other Works

  • What Can I Tell You? Selected Poems

    2022
  • [Elegies]

    2020
  • black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric

    2018
  • Melancolia

    2016

Awards and Recognition

  • 2023 NJ State Council of the Arts Fellowship