Introducing: Rane Arroyo

Rane is new to our fold and the following is a bit of his bang-up track record in the literary world…Rane Arroyo’s newest book is The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems and information about it can be found at The University of Arizona Press’ site:  http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1976.htm

Poems: 

“Brokeback Mountain.”  Glass, online.  http://glass-poetry.blogspot.com/2008/03/brokeback-mountain-by-rane-arroyo.html

“The Cubans.”  The Alembic.

“The Floating: A Triptych.”  Three poems.  Strange Horizons, online.  

“Imitations Of Bruce Springsteen.”  Corpus. 

“A Latin Lover Is never Alone.”  Inertia Magazine.  http://www.inertiamagazine.com/i4/arroyo.html

“Whose Son Am I Now?”  Istanbul Literary Review, online, http://www.ilrmagazine.net/poetry/issue11_po7.php

“Sex In A Stolen Car.”  “My Own Private Idaho,” “No Local Boy,” “Todo Sobre Mi Madre/All About My Mother,” and “Dreaming Of Rob Thomas.” The Antioch Review.

Book:  The Roswell Poems.  WordFarm Press. 
 

Anthology:

Essay:  “Books.”  Poets Bookshelf II:  Contemporary Poets On Books That Shaped Their Art.  Ed. by Peter Davis and Tom Koontz.  Barnwood Press (Seattle, WA):  33-35.

Essay:  “Some Debts Are Angels:  Introduction to The Buried Sea: New & Selected Poems.”  Forthcoming,

September 2p08: 1-9.

“Foreword:  The Here In Where.”  Primera Pagina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland.  Ed. by Latino Writers Collective.  Scapegoat P (Kansas City, MO):  11-13.

Poems:  “Saturday Night In San Juan With The Right Sailors,” “Almost a Revolution For Two In Bed” and “Tropical Fever.”  Our Caribbean:  A Gathering Of Lesbian And Gay Writing From the Antilles.  Ed. by Thomas Glave.  Duke University Press (2008): 51-52.  Groundbreaking anthology.

Poems:  “Single Conquistadores” and “Sodom (Club  Remix).”  Los Otros Cuerpos: Proyecto de antología Gay, Lésbica y Queer desde Puerto Rico y su diaspora. (Editorial  Nuevo Tiempo).  Ed. by David Caleb Acevedo, Moisés Agosto Rosario y Luis Negrón.  Editorial Tiempo Nuevo: Fall 2007, 201-202.  First Gay & Lesbian Puerto Rican Anthology.  Translated into Spanish.

Poems;  Seven poems included in Mariposas: Gay Puerto Rican Poems.  edited by Emanuel Xavier.  Seven Poems: Soft Skull Press. 
 

Professional Activities:

AWP:  Co-Vice-President and also Co-Chair of the Chicago Conference 2009.

Evaluator for Giles Whiting Foundation: Poetry.  Fall 2007.  By invitation only, major honor.

Judge:  2007-2008 Rainmaker Award.  Zone 3: 152, bio page.  Major honor.

Ohio Arts Council Excellence In Poetry Award (one of the two excellence prizes of all funded grants.)  Report turned in June 2008.

Poetry Magazine Online:  Poem “Always” is voted #2 of the year!