Urayoán Noel was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1976.
He is the author of two collections of poetry: Las flores del mall, a postindustrial book-object, and Kool Logic/La lógica kool, which was named one of the books of 2006 by the Puerto Rican newspaper El nuevo día. A third book, Boringkén, is forthcoming with a spoken-word CD. In 2005, he released the performance DVD Kool Logic Sessions: Poems, Pop Songs, Laugh Tracts, a collaboration with composer Monxo López.
His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in journals and periodicals in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, and are forthcoming in Mandorla and CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.
He has performed in the Dominican Republic, France, and Perú, and is featured in anthologies such as Los nuevos caníbales: antología de la más reciente poesía del Caribe hispano and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry.
After studying literature at the University of Puerto Rico and at Stanford, Noel attended NYU, where he is completing a dissertation on Nuyorican poetics and performance. He lives in the South Bronx.
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