victoria chang breaks it down:
Since 1985, the Whiting has given out 69 awards to poets (this includes poets/nonfiction, and poets/other genres too).
*61% were male, 39% were female
*11% were awarded to African American poets
*3% were awarded to Asian American poets
*1% were awarded to Native American poets
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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so a latino poet has never won? what a disgrace.
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