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About -  Bob Gomez

Rising Voices Youth Poetry Celebration Come celebrate the launch of the Seeds of Tomorrow youth poetry anthology with featured readings from local published high school student poets! Join us in person for the Rising Voices Youth Poetry Celebration, a community event honoring powerful work from local high school writers. The featured section will include a dynamic mix of live poetry readings and video screenings, alongside opportunities to meet the youth editors and creators. Together, let’s celebrate creativity, storytelling, and expression.
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Bio

Bob Gómez is a Chicano songwriter, singer, guitarist, translator, father of two, grandson of immigrants, retired Pájaro Valley Migrant and Bilingual Resource Teacher, satirist, carpenter, gardener, mystic, advocate for bilingualism, anti-racist, anti-homophobe, Japanophile, member of Santa Cruz Writers of Color, Japanese American Citizens League, and NAACP, native San Franciscan, SFSU Gator, Harvard M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, volunteer docent at the historic Castro Adobe State Park, and husband of 46 years to his lovely bride Denise. In 2022 he was named Watsonville’s first Poet Laureate, and has served as Area Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools in Santa Cruz County. He recently contributed to the countywide Rising Voices student poetry project, working at Pajaro Valley High School, helping 9th grade students to create original poetic works. He lives in Watsonville, and will be publishing his first book of haiku this year.

 

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Artist Statement

I strive to incorporate multiple influences, both musical and poetic, in all of my performances. To reach a mass audience, poetry and song must reach beyond the privately personal and stretch itself into universal themes. 

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