Urayoán Noel is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona Press) and the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Editora Educación Emergente). His other works include the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Prize, and the bilingual edition Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poems by Pablo de Rokha, forthcoming from Shearsman Books. Noel is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU, and also teaches at the low-residency MFA of the Americas at Stetson University.