Rane arroyo biography

Rane Arroyo

American poet, playwright, and scholar

Rane Arroyo

Born()November 15,
Chicago, Illinois, United States
DiedMay 7, () (aged&#;55)
Toledo, Ohio.

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United States

OccupationPoet, performer, playwright, professor
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksPale Ramón
Notable awardsCarl Sandburg Poetry Prize

Ramón Arroyo (November 15, &#;– May 7, ) was an American playwright, poet and scholar of Puerto Rican descent[1] who wrote numerous books and received many literary awards.

He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Toledo in Ohio. His work deals extensively with issues of immigration, Latino culture, and homosexuality.[2] Arroyo was openlygay and frequently wrote self-reflexive, autobiographical texts.[3] He was the long-term partner of the American poet Glenn Sheldon.

Biography

Ramón Arroyo was born in Chicago, Illinois,[4] to Puerto Rican parents. He began his career as a performance artist in the Chicago art galleries of the s and eventually expanded into poetry, for which he has become best known.

Rane arroyo poems Authority control databases. He was the long-term partner of the American poet Glenn Sheldon. Then Write. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

Arroyo earned his Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh where he wrote his dissertation on issues surrounding the "Chicago Renaissance" that parallel the building of a contemporary Latino literary canon.[5] He served as the co-Vice President of the board of directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and as the co-chair for the Chicago Conference.

His last public poetry reading was at SUNY/Brockport on March 31, His last three words to the public at that reading were: "Live. Then Write." It appears on the electronic version of the DVD Brockport made, in the SUNY Digital Repository The quote is at the end of his poem, "The Anonymous Reader" at Those three words were words he not only lived by but demanded of his creative writing students.

Arroyo died in the early morning of May 7, due to a cerebral hemorrhage.[6][7][8]

Critical reception

Arroyo was included in the Heath Anthology of American Literature published in ; this book is commonly taught in English college classes in the U.S.[3] He won the –05 John Ciardi Poetry Prize for The Portable Famine; the Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize for his book The Singing Shark; and a Pushcart Prize for the poem "Breathing Lessons" as published in Ploughshares.

Other awards include: Stonewall Books Chapbook Prize; The Sonora Review Chapbook Prize, the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize, and a Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award in Poetry.

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    • Betsy A. Sandlin published an article on him ("Poetry Always Demands All My Ghosts: The Haunted and Haunting Poetry of Rane Arroyo") in a landmark issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies on Puerto Rican queer studies.[9]Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes has also written about his work.[3][10][11]

    Works

    Books of poetry

    • Columbus's Orphan. Arcadia, Fl.: JVC books, , ISBN&#;
    • The Singing Shark. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, , ISBN&#;
    • Pale Ramón. Cambridge, Mass.: Zoland Books, , ISBN&#;
    • Home Movies of Narcissus. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, , ISBN&#;
    • The Portable Famine. Kansas City, Mo.: BkMk Press, , ISBN&#;
    • Don Quixote Goes to the Moon, Toronto: Ahadada Books, , OCLC&#;
    • The Roswell Poems. La Porte, Ind.: WordFarm, , ISBN&#;
    • Same-Sex Séances. New Sins Press, , ISBN&#;
    • The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, , ISBN&#;
    • The Sky's Weight. Turning Point Press, , ISBN&#;
    • White as Silver: Poems. West Somerville, MA: Cervená Barva Press, , ISBN&#;

    Book of short stories

    • How to Name a Hurricane.

      Tucson: University of Arizona Press, , ISBN&#;

    Performed plays

    • The Amateur Virgin, Buddha and the Señorita, Tiara Tango, Emily Dickinson in Bandages, A Family in Figleaves, Prayers for a Go-Go Boy, Honeymoon Rehearsals, House with Black Windows (with the poet Glenn Sheldon), Red House On Fire, and Horatio: An Inquisition

    Published plays

    • Dancing at Funerals: Selected Plays.

      Tokio and Toronto: ahadada books, , ISBN&#;

    • Buddha and the Señorita, Sex with the Man-in-the-Moon, Spanish Moon, Bed But No Breakfast, Fade to White (with the poets Glenn Sheldon and Diane Williams), Honeymoon Rehearsals, and A Lesson in Writing Love Letters

    Awards and honors

    • Jane Chambers Playwriting Award.

      Other Couples: Three One-Act Plays

    • 1st Prize, Hart Crane Memorial Award, Kent State University, for the poem "Le Mal de Siam"
    • 2nd place, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award for poem "The Carlos Poems #1"
    • Winner of the George Houston Bass Drama Award, Brown University's Rites and Reason Theater, for the play The Amateur Virgin
    • Winner of the Sonora Review/University of Arizona's National Chapbook Contest for The Red Bed poems
    • Carl Sandburg Poetry Award for The Singing Shark
    • Pushcart Prize for poem, "Breathing Lessons," published in Ploughshares
    • Winner of the Stonewall Books National Chapbook Contest for The Naked Thief
    • Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Individual Artist Grant for "Blood Never Rusts", an experimental story
    • Honorable Mention, Crossing Borders Contest, Wharf Rat Theater, The Darkness after a Millennium of Blondes
    • Finalist, 7th Annual West Coast Ten-Minute Playwriting Contest "Lord Byron, The God"
    • –02 Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Individual Artist Grant for Creative Non-fiction Essay on Toledo, "Glass Words"
    • Finalist for The Ohioana Award for Home Movies of Narcissus
    • Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize/1st Place for Winter Wear (The Immigrants)
    • –05 John Ciardi Poetry Prize for the poetry collection, The Portable Famine, included publication
    • Included in the prestigious Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume E, Contemporary Period: to the Present (5th Edition)Editor: Dr.

      Paul Lauter, Houghton Mifflin, –, introductory essay by Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (U of Michigan—Ann Arbor)

    • Caesar Chavez Visiting Writer, Saginaw Valley State University
    • ForeWord Poetry Book of The Year Finalist for The Portable Famine
    • Independent Publishers Awards finalist nominee for How to Name a Hurricane
    • Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Cream City Review) for What Daniel and I Talk About When We're Naked
    • Included in Contemporary Authors.

      Also in The Latino Encyclopedia

    • Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Poems & Plays) for A Lesson in Writing Love Letters, a one-act play
    • –08 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award in Poetry/State Grant
    • Inducted into the Ohio Center of the Book
    • Nominated for the 15th time for a Pushcart Prize by Saranac Review for The Closet
    • Nominated for the 16th time for a Pushcart Prize by Aperture for "
    • The International Latino Literary Prize: Honorable Mention in Poetry: The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems

    Legacy

    In , Seven Kitchens Press announced the creation of the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize for an original, unpublished poetry manuscript.[12] The editors for this prize are Dan Vera and Ron Mohring.

    The co-winners of the inaugural prize were Steven AlvarezArchived at the Wayback Machine and Rhett Watts.[13]

    In , Arroyo was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.[14]

    See also

    References

    1. ^"Rane Arroyo".

      Rane arroyo biography University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, full professor. Saturday, February 17, The co-winners of the inaugural prize were Steven Alvarez and Rhett Watts. What writers do you read over and over?

      AGNI Online - Boston University. 30 January Retrieved March 18,

    2. ^Sheldon, Glenn. "Arroyo, Rane." In Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes, ed. David William Foster. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, ISBN&#;
    3. ^ abcLa Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence.

    6. "Arroyo, Rane." Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume E: Contemporary Period ( to the Present), Fifth Ed. Paul Lauter, general ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN&#;X

    7. ^"UBC Press | About Rane Arroyo". UBC Press. Retrieved
    8. ^Arroyo, Rane Ramón. "Babel, United States of America: A Writer of Color Rethinks the Chicago Renaissance." Ph.D.

      diss., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Cited in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Document ID

    9. ^Fellner, Steve. "Tribute to Rane Arroyo."Pansy Poetics May 8, Accessed May 9,
    10. ^Rapin, Kristen.

      The rest of the semester is trying to figure out how to do this, argue with it, own it: specific is terrific. Toggle the table of contents. She taught us Emily Dickinson-and I realized that I always spoke in images, associations. Arroyo died in the early morning of May 7, due to a cerebral hemorrhage.

      "Poet Rane Arroyo’s death a ‘great tragedy and loss’"Archived at the Wayback MachineToledo Free Press May 11, Accessed May 11,

    11. ^"In-Memoriam: Rane Arroyo | Glass: A Journal of Poetry". . Retrieved
    12. ^Sandlin, Betsy A. "Poetry Always Demands All My Ghosts: The Haunted and Haunting Poetry of Rane Arroyo."Archived at the Wayback MachineCENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Spring ): –
    13. ^La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence.

      Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN&#;

    14. ^La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence, Lourdes Torres, and Ramón Rivera-Servera. "Toward an Archive of Latina/o Queer Chicago: Art, Politics, and Social Performance." Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads, edited by Jill Austin and Jennifer Brier.

      Chicago: Chicago History Museum,

    15. ^Seven Kitchens Press.

      Rane Arroyo | The Poetry Foundation: English is my second language and so translating the world into words seemed natural. Arrow-Debreu Model. My classroom is an intellectual safe space where risks must be taken. David William Foster.

      "Guidelines: The Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize."Archived at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 10,

    16. ^Seven Kitchens Press. "Rane Arroyo Prize co-winners selected: Alvarez, Watts." January 27, , accessed March 10,
    17. ^"The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame - Rane Arryo". . Retrieved 8 October

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