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Poets House, in partnership with Letras Latinas, presents a reading by poet, translator, and editor Urayoán Noel, the first in a monthly series showcasing ten Latinx poets from the Letras Latinas Oral History Project—an archive that began in 2005 and contains, to date, seventy interviews with poets and writers.
Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Transversal (Arizona, 2021), named a Book of the Year by the New York Public Library, and of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award. As a translator, Noel has published Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman, 2018), a finalist for the National Translation Award, as well as no budu please by Wingston González (UDP, 2018) and adjacent islands by Nicole Cecilia Delgado (UDP/DoubleCross/La Impresora, 2022), among other works. A Letras Boricuas fellow in poetry, Noel has been both fellow and faculty at CantoMundo and the Macondo Writers Workshop and is an editorial advisor for Latino Poetry (Library of America) and a board member of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center. Noel has performed at Poesiefestival Berlin, Barcelona Poesia, and the Toronto Biennial of Art, and his digital poetry has been featured at the Museum of the City of New York and in LAR Latinx Digital Poetics: An Electronic Literature Folio (2023), edited by Brent Ameneyro. Urayoán Noel lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish and as Editor-in-Chief for Intervenxions at The Latinx Project. Photo by Charlie Vázquez.
Poets House, in partnership with Letras Latinas, presents a reading by poet, translator, and editor Urayoán Noel, the first in a monthly series showcasing ten Latinx poets from the Letras Latinas Oral History Project—an archive that began in 2005 and contains, to date, seventy interviews with poets and writers.
Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Transversal (Arizona, 2021), named a Book of the Year by the New York Public Library, and of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award. As a translator, Noel has published Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman, 2018), a finalist for the National Translation Award, as well as no budu please by Wingston González (UDP, 2018) and adjacent islands by Nicole Cecilia Delgado (UDP/DoubleCross/La Impresora, 2022), among other works. A Letras Boricuas fellow in poetry, Noel has been both fellow and faculty at CantoMundo and the Macondo Writers Workshop and is an editorial advisor for Latino Poetry (Library of America) and a board member of the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center. Noel has performed at Poesiefestival Berlin, Barcelona Poesia, and the Toronto Biennial of Art, and his digital poetry has been featured at the Museum of the City of New York and in LAR Latinx Digital Poetics: An Electronic Literature Folio (2023), edited by Brent Ameneyro. Urayoán Noel lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish and as Editor-in-Chief for Intervenxions at The Latinx Project. Photo by Charlie Vázquez.
