Urayoán Noel is a Bronx-based poet, performer, and translator from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. His books include In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam and Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico. He edited and translated Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha, which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award. Noel teaches at New York University and at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas.