California Poet: Good News: Eduardo C. Corral has won the Yale Younger Series of Poets Prize

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Good News: Eduardo C. Corral has won the Yale Younger Series of Poets Prize

Some of you are aware of Eduardo C. Corral's poetry and his always interesting blog, Lorcaloca. However, what some of you might not be aware of is that Eduardo has just won the Yale Younger Series of Poets Prize. In fact, he is the first Latino ever to win this prestigious first-book award.

Considering the quality of Eduardo's work, I'm not surprised that the final judge selected his manuscript: Kudos to Eduardo and to the Yale Younger Series of Poets Prize organization!

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About Robert Vasquez

Robert Vasquez was born and raised in California's Central Valley. The son of working-class parents, he worked in various low-paying occupations from his high school years until he went to graduate school at age 30. He earned a BA in English from California State University at Fresno and an MFA in English from the University of California at Irvine, and he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing for two years at Stanford University. His poetry has received various awards, including three Academy of American Poets prizes, three National Society of Arts & Letters awards, a National Writers Union award, and--for his book At the Rainbow (University of New Mexico Press)--the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award. His poetry has been published in various journals, including The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Missouri Review, The New England Review, The Notre Dame Review, Parnassas: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares, VerseDaily.com, and The Village Voice, and in numerous anthologies, including After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties, American Religious Poetry: An Anthology Edited by Harold Bloom, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, California the Beautiful, The Geography of Home, Highway 99, How Much Earth, Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State, Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets, Proud Harvest, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, and Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West. His chapbook, Braille for the Heart (Momotombo Press), was just published in late 2007. In 2004/05 he was the inaugural judge for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (he selected Sheryl Luna's Pity the Drowned Horses), a first-book competition sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Latino Studies and the Notre Dame Press. In the 1990s he was the King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professor in the graduate creative writing program at Western Michigan University, and he has taught creative writing at three University of California campuses, including a stint in 2000 as a Visiting Professor in the graduate creative writing program at UC Davis. He currently teaches at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA.

Email: robertv@cos.edu

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Good News: Eduardo C. Corral has won the Yale Younger Series of Poets Prize

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