Red Salmon Arts Presents Urayoán Noel Reading at Resistencia Bookstore

Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the Bronx, and is assistant professor of English, Spanish, and Portuguese at NYU.

As a poet, Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015), a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection, Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox, 2010), a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection, Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual, 2005), and El Nuevo Día, Book of the Year, and several books mostly in Spanish, most recently the performance text, EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente, 2014).

A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo. Learn more at urayoannoel.com and wokitokiteki.com, a bilingual, improvisational poetry vlog.

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