Ramón Arroyo (November 15, 1954 – May 7, 2010) 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.
Rane Arroyo
Born
(1954-11-15)November 15, 1954 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died
May 7, 2010(2010-05-07) (aged 55) Toledo, Ohio. United States
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 1980s and eventually expanded into poetry, for which he has become best known.
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 2009 Chicago Conference.
His last public poetry reading was at SUNY/Brockport on March 31, 2010. His last three words to the public at that reading were: "Live. Then Write." Although it does not appear on the electronic version of the DVD Brockport made, it is quite audible on the YouTube clip immediately following a sampling of a Lady Gaga song which ended his poetry reading. 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, 2010 due to a cerebral hemorrhage.[6][7][8]
Critical receptionedit
Arroyo was included in the Heath Anthology of American Literature published in 2006; this book is commonly taught in English college classes in the U.S.[3] He won the 2004–05 John Ciardi Poetry Prize for The Portable Famine; the 1997 Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize for his book The Singing Shark; and a 1997 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 2007 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award in Poetry.
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]
White as Silver: Poems. West Somerville, MA: Cervená Barva Press, 2010, ISBN9780984473229.
Book of short storiesedit
How to Name a Hurricane. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005, ISBN0-8165-2460-2.
Performed playsedit
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 playsedit
Dancing at Funerals: Selected Plays. Tokio and Toronto: ahadada books, 2010, ISBN978-0-9812744-4-7.
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 honorsedit
1985 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Other Couples: Three One-Act Plays
1991 1st Prize, Hart Crane Memorial Award, Kent State University, for the poem "Le Mal de Siam"
1992 2nd place, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award for poem "The Carlos Poems #1"
1993 Winner of the George Houston Bass Drama Award, Brown University's Rites and Reason Theater, for the play The Amateur Virgin
1993 Winner of the Sonora Review/University of Arizona's National Chapbook Contest for The Red Bed poems
1997 Carl Sandburg Poetry Award for The Singing Shark
1997 Pushcart Prize for poem, "Breathing Lessons," published in Ploughshares
1997 Winner of the Stonewall Books National Chapbook Contest for The Naked Thief
1998 Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Individual Artist Grant for "Blood Never Rusts", an experimental story
1999 Honorable Mention, Crossing Borders 1999 Contest, Wharf Rat Theater, The Darkness after a Millennium of Blondes
2001 Finalist, 7th Annual West Coast Ten-Minute Playwriting Contest "Lord Byron, The God"
2001–02 Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Individual Artist Grant for Creative Non-fiction Essay on Toledo, "Glass Words"
2004 Finalist for The Ohioana Award for Home Movies of Narcissus
2004 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize/1st Place for Winter Wear (The Immigrants)
2004–05 John Ciardi Poetry Prize for the poetry collection, The Portable Famine, included publication
2005 Included in the prestigious Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume E, Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present (5th Edition)Editor: Dr. Paul Lauter, Houghton Mifflin, 2005: 2989–2995, introductory essay by Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (U of Michigan—Ann Arbor)
2006 Caesar Chavez Visiting Writer, Saginaw Valley State University
2006 ForeWord Poetry Book of The Year Finalist for The Portable Famine
2006 Independent Publishers Awards finalist nominee for How to Name a Hurricane
2006 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Cream City Review) for What Daniel and I Talk About When We're Naked
2007 Included in Contemporary Authors. Also in The Latino Encyclopedia
2007 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (by Poems & Plays) for A Lesson in Writing Love Letters, a one-act play
2007–08 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award in Poetry/State Grant
2009 Inducted into the Ohio Center of the Book
2009 Nominated for the 15th time for a Pushcart Prize by Saranac Review for The Closet
2009 Nominated for the 16th time for a Pushcart Prize by Aperture for "
2009 The International Latino Literary Prize: Honorable Mention in Poetry: The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems
Legacyedit
In 2012, 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 Alvarez 2013-08-13 at the Wayback Machine and Rhett Watts.[13]
In 2015, Arroyo was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.[14]
^"Rane Arroyo". AGNI Online - Boston University. 30 January 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
^Sheldon, Glenn. "Arroyo, Rane." In Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes, ed. David William Foster. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. 43-46. ISBN0-313-28479-2
^ abcLa Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. "Arroyo, Rane." Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume E: Contemporary Period (1945 to the Present), Fifth Ed. Paul Lauter, general ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 2989-90. ISBN0-618-53301-X
^"UBC Press | About Rane Arroyo". UBC Press. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
^Arroyo, Rane Ramón. "Babel, United States of America: A Writer of Color Rethinks the Chicago Renaissance." Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1994. Cited in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Document ID 740927961.
^Fellner, Steve. "Tribute to Rane Arroyo." Pansy Poetics May 8, 2010. Accessed May 9, 2010.
^Rapin, Kristen. "Poet Rane Arroyo’s death a ‘great tragedy and loss’" 2010-05-19 at the Wayback MachineToledo Free Press May 11, 2010. Accessed May 11, 2010.
^"In-Memoriam: Rane Arroyo | Glass: A Journal of Poetry". www.glass-poetry.com. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
^Sandlin, Betsy A. "Poetry Always Demands All My Ghosts: The Haunted and Haunting Poetry of Rane Arroyo." 2012-09-21 at the Wayback MachineCENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 19.1 (Spring 2007): 162–177.
^La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. ISBN0-8166-4092-0
^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, 2011. 127-153.
^Seven Kitchens Press. "Guidelines: The Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize." 2013-01-07 at the Wayback MachineSevenKitchensPress.com, accessed March 10, 2013.
^Seven Kitchens Press. "Rane Arroyo Prize co-winners selected: Alvarez, Watts." SevenKitchensPress.com January 27, 2013, accessed March 10, 2013.
^"The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame - Rane Arryo". chicagoliteraryhof.org. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
External linksedit
Rane Arroyo - Poetry Foundation
December 14, 2023
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Ramon Arroyo November 15 1954 May 7 2010 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 openly gay and frequently wrote self reflexive autobiographical texts 3 He was the long term partner of the American poet Glenn Sheldon Rane ArroyoBorn 1954 11 15 November 15 1954Chicago Illinois United StatesDiedMay 7 2010 2010 05 07 aged 55 Toledo Ohio United StatesOccupationPoet performer playwright professorNationalityAmericanNotable worksPale RamonNotable awardsCarl Sandburg Poetry PrizeWebsitewww wbr ranearroyo wbr com Contents 1 Biography 2 Critical reception 3 Works 3 1 Books of poetry 3 2 Book of short stories 3 3 Performed plays 3 4 Published plays 3 5 Awards and honors 4 Legacy 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksBiography editRamon 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 1980s and eventually expanded into poetry for which he has become best known 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 amp Writing Programs AWP and as the co chair for the 2009 Chicago Conference His last public poetry reading was at SUNY Brockport on March 31 2010 His last three words to the public at that reading were Live Then Write Although it does not appear on the electronic version of the DVD Brockport made it is quite audible on the YouTube clip immediately following a sampling of a Lady Gaga song which ended his poetry reading 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 2010 due to a cerebral hemorrhage 6 7 8 Critical reception editArroyo was included in the Heath Anthology of American Literature published in 2006 this book is commonly taught in English college classes in the U S 3 He won the 2004 05 John Ciardi Poetry Prize for The Portable Famine the 1997 Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize for his book The Singing Shark and a 1997 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 2007 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award in Poetry 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 editBooks of poetry edit Columbus s Orphan Arcadia Fl JVC books 1993 ISBN 1 878116 17 7 The Singing Shark Tempe AZ Bilingual Press 1996 ISBN 0 927534 61 4 Pale Ramon Cambridge Mass Zoland Books 1998 ISBN 0 944072 94 1 Home Movies of Narcissus Tucson University of Arizona Press 2002 ISBN 0 8165 2195 6 The Portable Famine Kansas City Mo BkMk Press 2005 ISBN 1 886157 53 7 Don Quixote Goes to the Moon Toronto Ahadada Books 2006 OCLC 71388016 The Roswell Poems La Porte Ind WordFarm 2008 ISBN 978 1 60226 001 6 Same Sex Seances New Sins Press 2008 ISBN 0 9796956 1 9 The Buried Sea New amp Selected Poems Tucson University of Arizona Press 2008 ISBN 978 0 8165 2716 8 The Sky s Weight Turning Point Press 2009 ISBN 1 934999 73 3 White as Silver Poems West Somerville MA Cervena Barva Press 2010 ISBN 9780984473229 Book of short stories edit How to Name a Hurricane Tucson University of Arizona Press 2005 ISBN 0 8165 2460 2 Performed plays edit The Amateur Virgin Buddha and the Senorita 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 InquisitionPublished plays edit Dancing at Funerals Selected Plays Tokio and Toronto ahadada books 2010 ISBN 978 0 9812744 4 7 Buddha and the Senorita 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 LettersAwards and honors edit 1985 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Other Couples Three One Act Plays 1991 1st Prize Hart Crane Memorial Award Kent State University for the poem Le Mal de Siam 1992 2nd place Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award for poem The Carlos Poems 1 1993 Winner of the George Houston Bass Drama Award Brown University s Rites and Reason Theater for the play The Amateur Virgin 1993 Winner of the Sonora Review University of Arizona s National Chapbook Contest for The Red Bed poems 1997 Carl Sandburg Poetry Award for The Singing Shark 1997 Pushcart Prize for poem Breathing Lessons published in Ploughshares 1997 Winner of the Stonewall Books National Chapbook Contest for The Naked Thief 1998 Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Individual Artist Grant for Blood Never Rusts an experimental story 1999 Honorable Mention Crossing Borders 1999 Contest Wharf Rat Theater The Darkness after a Millennium of Blondes 2001 Finalist 7th Annual West Coast Ten Minute Playwriting Contest Lord Byron The God 2001 02 Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Individual Artist Grant for Creative Non fiction Essay on Toledo Glass Words 2004 Finalist for The Ohioana Award for Home Movies of Narcissus 2004 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize 1st Place for Winter Wear The Immigrants 2004 05 John Ciardi Poetry Prize for the poetry collection The Portable Famine included publication 2005 Included in the prestigious Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume E Contemporary Period 1945 to the Present 5th Edition Editor Dr Paul Lauter Houghton Mifflin 2005 2989 2995 introductory essay by Dr Lawrence La Fountain Stokes U of Michigan Ann Arbor 2006 Caesar Chavez Visiting Writer Saginaw Valley State University 2006 ForeWord Poetry Book of The Year Finalist for The Portable Famine 2006 Independent Publishers Awards finalist nominee for How to Name a Hurricane 2006 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Cream City Review for What Daniel and I Talk About When We re Naked 2007 Included in Contemporary Authors Also in The Latino Encyclopedia 2007 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Poems amp Plays for A Lesson in Writing Love Letters a one act play 2007 08 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award in Poetry State Grant 2009 Inducted into the Ohio Center of the Book 2009 Nominated for the 15th time for a Pushcart Prize by Saranac Review for The Closet 2009 Nominated for the 16th time for a Pushcart Prize by Aperture for 2009 The International Latino Literary Prize Honorable Mention in Poetry The Buried Sea New and Selected PoemsLegacy editIn 2012 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 Alvarez Archived 2013 08 13 at the Wayback Machine and Rhett Watts 13 In 2015 Arroyo was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame 14 See also edit nbsp Literature portal nbsp Puerto Rico portal nbsp LGBT portal nbsp Biography portalList of Puerto Rican writers List of Latin American writers List of Puerto Ricans Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States American poetry LGBT literature Puerto Rican literatureReferences edit Rane Arroyo AGNI Online Boston University 30 January 2018 Retrieved March 18 2023 Sheldon Glenn Arroyo Rane In Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes ed David William Foster Westport Conn Greenwood Press 1994 43 46 ISBN 0 313 28479 2 a b c La Fountain Stokes Lawrence Arroyo Rane Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume E Contemporary Period 1945 to the Present Fifth Ed Paul Lauter general ed Boston Houghton Mifflin 2006 2989 90 ISBN 0 618 53301 X UBC Press About Rane Arroyo UBC Press Retrieved 2020 05 04 Arroyo Rane Ramon Babel United States of America A Writer of Color Rethinks the Chicago Renaissance Ph D diss Univ of Pittsburgh 1994 Cited in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Document ID 740927961 Fellner Steve Tribute to Rane Arroyo Pansy Poetics May 8 2010 Accessed May 9 2010 Rapin Kristen Poet Rane Arroyo s death a great tragedy and loss Archived 2010 05 19 at the Wayback Machine Toledo Free Press May 11 2010 Accessed May 11 2010 In Memoriam Rane Arroyo Glass A Journal of Poetry www glass poetry com Retrieved 2020 05 04 Sandlin Betsy A Poetry Always Demands All My Ghosts The Haunted and Haunting Poetry of Rane Arroyo Archived 2012 09 21 at the Wayback Machine CENTRO Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 19 1 Spring 2007 162 177 La Fountain Stokes Lawrence Queer Ricans Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2009 ISBN 0 8166 4092 0 La Fountain Stokes Lawrence Lourdes Torres and Ramon 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 2011 127 153 Seven Kitchens Press Guidelines The Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize Archived 2013 01 07 at the Wayback Machine SevenKitchensPress com accessed March 10 2013 Seven Kitchens Press Rane Arroyo Prize co winners selected Alvarez Watts SevenKitchensPress com January 27 2013 accessed March 10 2013 The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Rane Arryo chicagoliteraryhof org Retrieved 8 October 2017 External links editRane Arroyo Poetry Foundation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rane Arroyo amp oldid 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