Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and MFA Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NC State University. 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 Lambda Literary Award 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

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

. 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, sociol ...

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

. 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 Wri ...

. 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 ''Black Warrior Review (BWR)'' is a non-profit American literary magazine founded in 1974 and based at the University of Alabama. It is the oldest continuously run literary journal by graduate students in the United States. Published in print bi ...

, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review,

Indiana Review ''Indiana Review'' (''IR'') is a small, student-run literary magazine at Indiana University Bloomington. Founded in 1976, it has a circulation of about 2,000. A biannual review, ''IR'' publishes essays, fiction, graphic arts, interviews, poetry, ...

, Meridian, MiPOesias,'' and ''

The Nation ''The Nation'' is an American liberal biweekly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper tha ...

.'' His collection "Slow Lightning" was chosen by Carl Phillips for the prestigious Yale Younger Series Poets award. Corral is the first Latino poet chosen for the prize. He has cited Robert Hayden, Federico García Lorca,

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 serve ...

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 The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...

, 2011 * Yale Younger Series Poets, 2011 *

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Fellowship * MacDowell Colony Fellowship *Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship, 2009 *

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a gay-themed book of poetry by a male writer. At the first two Lambda Literary Awards in 1989 and 1990, a single award for LGBT Po ...

, 2021Jane Henderson
"Lambda Literary Awards announce winners"
''

St. Louis Post-Dispatch The ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' is a major regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the ''Belleville News-Dem ...

'', June 1, 2021.

Publications

Poetry Collections * ''

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'', Yale University Press, 2012. , * ''Guillotine'',

Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is an Independent publisher, independent, non-profit publishing, publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the Co ...

, 2020.

References

Sources

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

External links

on the '' Arizona Republic'' website
Three Poems by Corral at

Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation is an American literary society that seeks to promote poetry and lyricism in the wider culture. It was formed from ''Poetry'' magazine, which it continues to publish, with a 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Rut ...

website
Profile of Corral
on the

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website
Corral page
on

website
Interview
on ''

Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Boston. ...

'' 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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