Urayoán Noel
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 |
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).
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.
