Rane Arroyo
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Rane Arroyo was a Puerto Rican performance artist, poet, author, playwright and scholar. He began his career as a performance artist in the Chicago art galleries of the 1980s and eventually expanded into poetry, for which he has become best known. He earned his Ph.D. in English/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. He wrote numerous books and received many literary awards. His work dealt extensively with issues of immigration, Latino culture, and homosexuality. Arroyo was openly gay and frequently wrote self-reflexive, autobiographical texts. A professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Toledo in Ohio, Arroyo was also the co-Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
“””Other Awards and Honors”””r | “Breathing Lessons,”r | “Le Mal de Siam”r | “The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems”r | “The Carlos Poems #1″r | “The Immigrants”r | “The Portable Famine”r | “The Singing Shark”r | *1st Prize, Hart Crane Memorial Award, Kent State University, 1991r | *2nd place, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, 1992r | *Carl Sandburg Poetry Award, 1997 r | *Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, 2015 | *Finalist, Book of the Year, Foreword Poetry, 2006r | *Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, 2004r | *Honorable Mention in Poetry, The International Latino Literary Prize, 2009r | *John Ciardi Poetry Prize for the poetry collection, 2004-05r | *Pushcart Prize, 1997r | r
Camino del sol : | Columbus’s orphan : | Home movies of Narcissus : | How to name a hurricane / | Pale RamoÌn / | Same-sex seances : | Sky’s weight : | The Roswell poems / | The buried sea : | The portable famine / | The singing shark / | White as silver :