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Rane Ramón Arroyo (November 15, 1954 – May 7, 2010) was an American poet, playwright, and scholar of Puerto Rican descent 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.〔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〕 Arroyo was openly gay and frequently wrote self-reflexive, autobiographical texts.〔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〕 He was the long-term partner of the American poet Glenn Sheldon. ==Biography== Rane Ramón Arroyo was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Puerto Rican immigrant 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.〔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.〕 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's 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.〔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’" ) ''Toledo Free Press'' May 11, 2010. Accessed May 11, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rane Arroyo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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