Carlos Román is a poet, a certified mixologist, and the founder of VerseKeepers — a word he coined himself for everyone who has ever kept a verse close.
By trade, he has spent fifteen years behind the bar, three of them as a bar manager, after training in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico — a craftsman’s life that taught his hands patience and his ear rhythm. It’s the same craft behind VerseKeepers’ Gastronomy & Mixology collection.
By night, he writes. His poems — in English and in Spanish — take on love and its undoing, faith, time, and the mystery of where inspiration comes from. His original poetry appears on the VerseKeepers Original Poetry bookmarks, and every bookmark in the shop is designed, printed, cut, and checked by his own hands in Elyria, Ohio.
He keeps the poet’s hour — 3 a.m. — and his shop runs on a simple belief, the one written into its name: saving your spot, sparking your soul.
Because we are all versekeepers.
Want to show a little more support? The verses live daily on my social pages — a new verse every morning, the poems behind the bookmarks, and more of the making.
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Follow along, and thank you for keeping verses with me.