Urayoán Noel is a translator, poet, and critic who is the author of poetry collections, poetry criticism[1] and books. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation,[2] the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Howard Foundation,[3] and CantoMundo (where Noel has been both fellow and faculty).
Urayoán Noel | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 12, 1976 |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University Stanford University University of Puerto Rico |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | New York University |
Early life and education edit
Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, he has a PhD (Spanish) from New York University, 2008; an M.A. (Spanish) from Stanford University, 1999; and a B.A. (English) from Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Career edit
Noel is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU.[4] In addition, he is a contributing editor at Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora,[5] NACLA Report on the Americas,[6] and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas[7].
Noel's poetry and criticism is widely published. His work appears in Bomb,[8] Contemporary Literature,[9][10] Lana Turner,[11] Latino Studies,[12] Small Axe Project,[13][14] CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies,[15][16] Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,[17] Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies,[18] American Literary History,[19] and Comparative Literature Studies.[20]
Noel is the author of several poetry collections, including his debut collection Kool Logic/La lógica kool, Boringkén, Hi-Density Politics, and Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico, focused on the "promotion of hemispheric politics and poetics, along with its interrogation of technology's structural and narrative interventions into diasporic cultures.[21]" Critic Kristin Dykstra notes that "Taken collectively the books produce a historic meditation that collides with, and intensifies, the frenetic energies emphasizing the immediacy of urban life.[22]" Noel's poetry has been honored with a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection and a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection.
The author's work as both editor and critic has received numerous plaudits. 2014's In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam was the winner of the 2015/2016 Best Book Award from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association and received an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. Noel edited and translated Pablo de Rokha's Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry (Shearsman Books, 2018). This book was later longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, sponsored by Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester.
Personal life edit
Noel lives in the Bronx where he was awarded a BRIO fellowship[23] from the Bronx Council on the Arts.
Selected bibliography edit
| Title | Publisher | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Kool Logic/La lógica kool | Bilingual Review Press | 2005 |
| Boringkén | Librería La Tertulia / Ediciones Callejón | 2008 |
| Hi-Density Politics | BlazeVOX Books | 2010 |
| Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico | University of Arizona Press | 2015 |
| Title | Publisher | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam | University of Iowa Press | 2014 |
| Title | Publisher | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry (Pablo de Rokha (Author), Urayoan Noel (Translator)) | Shearsman Books | 2018 |
| Title | Publisher | Year of Publication | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement (edited by Carrie Noland, Barrett Watten) | Palgrave Macmillan | 2009 | Features Noel's essay, "From Spanglish to "Glossolalia: Edwin Torres’s Nuyo-Futurist Utopia"[24] |
| Performing Poetry: Body, Place and Rhythm in the Poetry Performance. (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race) (edited by Arturo Casas, Cornelia Grabner) | Rodopi | 2011 | Features Noel's essay, "The Body's Territories: Performance Poetry in Contemporary Puerto Rico."[25] |
| Avenues of Translation: The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing (edited by Regina Galasso, Evelyn Scaramella) | Bucknell University Press | 2019 | Features Noel's essay, "litoral translation traducción litoral" |
Selected poems edit
Death and Taxesfrom Kool Logic (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2005)
In the Faraway Suburbsfrom Kool Logic (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2005)
ode to coffee oda al caféfrom PoetryNow(2016)
No Longer Odefrom Poem-a-Dayon August 13, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets.
References edit
- ^ "Urayoán Noel". Poetry Foundation. September 28, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ "Fellowship Award to Tomas Urayoan Noel – University at Albany-SUNY". albany.edu. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ "Previous Fellowship Awardees | Howard Foundation | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ "Urayoán Noel". Bettering American Poetry. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ "Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora". obsidianlit.org. Archived from the original on February 17, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
- ^ "NACLA People". NACLA. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ "Mandorla: Information/Información". litline.org. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ "The PoPedology of an Ambient Language by Urayoán Noel – BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (2011). "Bodies that Antimatter: Locating U.S Latino/a Poetry, 2000–2009". Contemporary Literature. 52 (4): 852–882. doi:10.1353/cli.2011.0042. ISSN 1548-9949.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (2009). "Shades of Reading: The Many Places of Literature". Contemporary Literature. 50 (3): 624–628. doi:10.1353/cli.0.0068. ISSN 1548-9949.
- ^ "forrest gander Core Attention Span". Forrest Gander. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (May 1, 2011). "Counter/public address: Nuyorican poetries in the slam era". Latino Studies. 9 (1): 38–61. doi:10.1057/lst.2011.4. ISSN 1476-3443. S2CID 145079383.
- ^ "Urayoán Noel | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (November 1, 2013). "For a Caribbean American Graininess: William Carlos Williams, Translator". Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 17 (3 (42)): 138–150. doi:10.1215/07990537-2378964. ISSN 0799-0537. S2CID 144355324.
- ^ Noel, Urayoan (March 22, 2008). "In the decimated city: symptom, translation, and diasporic identity in El Conjunto Tipico Ladi's "Un jibaro en Nueva York" (1947)". CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán. "In the decimated city: symptom, translation, and the performance of a New York jíbaro from Ladí toLuciano to Lavoe" (PDF). Centro Journal.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (March 13, 2012). "Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (review)". Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 46 (1): 148–151. doi:10.1353/rvs.2012.0005. ISSN 2164-9308. S2CID 143480561.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán. "On Out of Focus Nuyoricans, Noricuas, and Performance Identities" (PDF). Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (May 1, 2017). "Remediating the Latin@ Sixties". American Literary History. 29 (2): 374–395. doi:10.1093/alh/ajx006. ISSN 0896-7148.
- ^ Irr, Caren (November 27, 2008). "Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (review)". Comparative Literature Studies. 45 (4): 519–521. doi:10.2307/complitstudies.45.4.0519. ISSN 1528-4212. S2CID 162556261.
- ^ Ginsburg, Samuel (April 10, 2019). "Sonic Modernity and Decolonizing Countersounds in the Poetry of Urayoán Noel". Latin American Research Review. 54 (1): 135–150. doi:10.25222/larr.335. ISSN 1542-4278.
- ^ "On equal footing | Jacket2". jacket2.org. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ "Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO)". Bronx Council on the Arts. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (2009), Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett (eds.), "From Spanglish to Glossolalia: Edwin Torres's Nuyo-Futurist Utopia", Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 225–242, doi:10.1007/978-1-137-08751-5_12, ISBN 9781137087515
- ^ Noel, Urayoán (January 1, 2011). "The Body's Territories: Performance Poetry in Contemporary Puerto Rico". Performing Poetry: 89–109. doi:10.1163/9789401200257_007. ISBN 9789042033290.