Rigoberto González

Rigoberto González is the author 17 books, most recently the poetry collection Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, a NYFA grant in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Center Book Award, and the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award, he is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, and professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. He is also the recipient of the 2015 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. As of 2016, he serves as critic-at-large with the L.A. Times.

Articles

Three Promising New Voices at the Identity Crossroads
Three new poetry collections mark auspicious beginnings for three poets: Derrick Austin, Michael Prior, and Phillip B. Williams....
Rigoberto GonzálezJul 2, 2016
- Poetry
Juan Felipe Herrera’s Global Voice and Vision
An introduction to the scope of Juan Felipe Herrera's oeuvre...
Rigoberto GonzálezSep 23, 2015
- Poetry
Mid-Career: Three Poets and their Fourth Books
Rigoberto Gonzalez on the fourth books of three mid-career poets: Ada Limon, Kyle Dargan, and Quan Barry....
Rigoberto GonzálezJul 21, 2015
- Poetry
The Humor and Heart in the Novels of Denise Chávez
If a Mexican restaurant can channel the rich yet double-edged nature of Mexican/Chicano culture, then why not a Mexican icon?...
Rigoberto GonzálezDec 1, 2014
- Fiction
Powerful Debuts by Three African-American Poets
The incubator for great African American poets: Cave Canem...
Rigoberto GonzálezJan 18, 2014
Mexican History, Culture, and Consciousness in the Chicano Novel
Tim Z Hernandez, Alex Espinoza, Mario Alberto Zambrano — the next generation of Chicano writers confronts, once again, the question of Mexico....
Rigoberto GonzálezSep 8, 2013
Publishers on a Mission
THE POETRY CONTEST CONTINUES TO BE one of the few opportunities for early-career poets to publish their first books. This avenue doesn’t come without serious challenges to young writers, like the suspicion that such contests are money-making schemes, or, even ...
Rigoberto GonzálezMay 13, 2013
The Cuban Novels of Pablo Medina
THE AUTHOR OF 13 BOOKS of prose and poetry, including a translation (with Mark Statman) of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York (2007), Pablo Medina has slowly nurtured an unassuming but distinguished career in letters. He identifies proudly ...
Rigoberto GonzálezSep 25, 2012
Growing Up
Each new episode more outlandish than the one before....
Rigoberto GonzálezOct 7, 2011
Romeo Byron Is Dead: Jessica Hagedorn’s “Toxicology”
Hagedorn's lean, quick chapters and impressionistic scenes have the effect of sound bytes, and perfectly complement the tone of her world....
Rigoberto GonzálezJul 13, 2011
- Fiction