Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and MFA Assistant Professor in the Department of English at

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. His first collection, ''Slow Lightning'', published by

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, was the winner of the 2011 Yale Younger Series Poets award, making him the first Latino recipient of this prize. His 2020 work, ''guillotine'', was awarded the 2021

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for gay poetry and was longlisted for the 2020

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

Personal life

Corral was born in

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to Higinio and Socorro Corral, on February 25, 1973. He teaches at

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. He wrote a poem in his high school AP English class that was based on the poem "Beowulf". Despite being a fabulous student he decided to not take this assignment seriously. Even though he didn't take it seriously, his teacher loved his poem and kept it on her corkboard for others to see.

Career

Corral studied

Chicano studies Chicana/o studies, also known as Chican@ studies, originates from the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, and is the study of the Chicana/o and Latina/o experience. Chican@ studies draws upon a variety of fields, including history, soc ...

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. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from the

Iowa Writer's Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Wr ...

. Corral was also a founding fellow of the

CantoMundo CantoMundo is an American literary organization founded in 2009 to support Latino poets and poetry. It hosts an annual poetry workshop dedicated to the creation, documentation, and critical analysis of Latinx poetry. History CantoMundo was founded ...

Writers Conference. He is a featured faculty member at the 2018 Poetry Seminar at

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in Franconia, NH. His poems have been published in various journals including '' Black Warrior Review,

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, Indiana Review, Meridian, MiPOesias,'' and ''

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.'' His collection "Slow Lightning" was chosen by

Carl Phillips Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Early life Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year unt ...

for the prestigious Yale Younger Series Poets award. Corral is the first Latino poet chosen for the prize. He has cited

Robert Hayden Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-Ameri ...

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

C.D. Wright Carolyn D. Wright (January 6, 1949 – January 12, 2016) was an American poet. She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. Background C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, to a chancery ju ...

, and

José Montoya José Montoya (May 28, 1932 – September 25, 2013) was a poet and an artist from Sacramento, California. He was one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets. He has published many well-known poems in anthologies and magazines, and ser ...

as influences.

Slow Lighting (Yale University Press, 2012)

Corral is intentional and careful when writing. He's filled several notebooks, which he has saved, when writing his first collection.

Awards/Fellowships

* Discovery/The Nation Award, 2005 *New Millennium Writings Award * Whiting Award, 2011 * Yale Younger Series Poets, 2011 *

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Fellowship *

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Fellowship *Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship, 2009 * Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, 2021Jane Henderson
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'', June 1, 2021.

Publications

Poetry Collections * '' Slow Lightning'', Yale University Press, 2012. , * ''Guillotine'',

Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mellon ...

, 2020.

References

Sources

"Poetry opened doors wide for Eduardo Corral" by Richard Ruelas, ''Arizona Republic'', November 26, 2011

External links

on the ''

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'' website
Three Poems by Corral at

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Profile of Corral
on the

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Corral page
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Interview
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'' website
Eduardo Corral recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on September 17, 2012
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