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Rane Arroyo is a leading poeta puertorriqueño and playwright who has also found readers and audiences outside of his ethnicity. A first generation Latino born in Chicago, he learned English as much in the world as he did at school. Arroyo received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh where he wrote his dissertation, Babel USA: A Writer of Color Rethinks the Chicago Renaissance.
He currently teaches Creative Writing as a professor at the University of Toledo. Previous work has included arts management, hospital billing, a variety of odd temporary assignments and factory work. Work seems to be an important force in Arroyo's life for he has been prolific in his writings in many genres.
"The Rane Arroyo Papers" were established at El Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College (CUNY) in 1992. He is also part of the Ohiana Library Association's Ohio Author series and the AWP Writer's Series. Arroyo has been writer in residence at Brown University and the Western Pennsylvania Writer's project. His most recent readings have been at Oberlin College, Ohio State University and various national Latino festivals.
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The Portable Famine, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2005
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How To Name A Hurricane, University of Arizona Press. (fiction), 2005
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Home Movies of Narcissus, University of Arizona Press, 2002
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Pale Ramón. Zoland Books, 1998
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The Singing Shark. Bilingual Press/Arizona State University Press, 1996
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Columbus’ Orphan. JVC Press, 1993
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- Don Quixote Goes To The Moon. Ahadada Books, 2005
- Weekends in Ohio With Ghosts. Last Minute Press, 2000
- The Naked Thief. Stonewall Books, 1997
- The Red Bed. Sonora Review/University of Arizona, 1993
- Television Poems. Anaconda Press, 1992
- Death Cab for Cutie. New Sins Press, 1990
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What Others Say
Arroyo's poems explore our various Americas, imagined and otherwise, in language by turns playful and profound, and in images both surprising and apt.
— Reginald Shepherd, author of Otherhood, editor of Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries
This displaced Midwest-based poet of Puerto Rican heritage turns consciousness into a "glass skull" that reflects as "transparent shadows" the historic and contemporary marks of war and empire, colonialism, neocolonialism, exile, diaspora, and globalization.
— María DeGuzmán, author of Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire
Erotic, irreverent, mournful, political, Arroyo's lyrics and narratives surprise, often by juxtaposing literary erudition’s and popular culture in the same stanza. Read his arguments, direct addresses, dream poems, elegies, family narrative, and love poems to experience an incisive, original mind exploring “the square roots of restlessness.”
— Robin Becker, Judge, John Ciardi Prize for Poetry
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