poetry

Rane Arroyo won the prestigious 1997 Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize for his book The Singing Shark(Bilingual Press), and a 1997 Pushcart Prize for the poem "Breathing Lessons." Other awards include: the Stonewall Books National Chapbook Prize for The Naked Thief; The Sonora Review Chapbook Contest Award for The Red Bed. He is the author of Columbus's Orphan and the chapbooks The Naked Thief, The Red Bed, The Television Poems, and Death Cab for Cutie. A new poetry volume, Pale Ramón, is from Zoland Books and has already been nominated for several major national awards.

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Online Chapbook
Poor Man's Crystal Ball
 Other Poems Online:
Virtual Tower (3 poems)
Bakunin ("Federico Lorca")
Montserrat Review ("Soap Operas")

Anthologies

Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal
Forthcoming August 2000 (White Pine Press)
"Lucky, the Latin Lover of Lombard, Illinois"
Between the Cracks
Edited by Gavin Dillard (Daedalus Pub., 1997) p.283-284
"Very Personal Ad"
Decade II: An Anniversary Anthology for the Americas Review
Edited by Julián Olivares and Evangeline Vigil-Pión (Arte Público Press, 1993) p.248-253
"Blonde as a Bat"
"Columbus's Orphan"
Ex-Lover Weird Shit
Edited by Debra Riggin Waugh (Two Out of Three Sisters Press, 1994) p.61
"E. Or Not-So-Secret Lover"
For a Living: The Poetry of Work
Edited by Nick Coles and Peter Oresick. (University of Illinois Press. 1995) p.10-12
"Juan Angel"
The Heartlands Today: A Cultural Quilt
(Firelands Writing Center. # 2, 1992) p.61
"Spanish Lessons"
The Heartlands Today: Characters & Voices
(Firelands Writing Center. # 9, Fall 1999) p.92-93
"A Farm in Ohio"
"Young in the Heartland"
Learning By Heart
Edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler. (University of Iowa Press)
"Spanish Lessons"
POESída
Edited by Carlos Rodrguez Matos. (Ollantay Press, 1996) p.18-22
"Los Angeles: Two Chapters from the Book of Lamentations,"
"Moon Meditations"
"The Whispering Dead"
Pushcart Prize Anthology XXI (1997)
"Breathing Lessons"