Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry, including Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico and the forth-coming 24/7, an anthology of 20 years of his poetry edited by José Miguel Curet. His other works include the perfor-mance vlog Wokitokiteki; the performance/installation CONTRAERTE; the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam, winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award; and the bilingual edition Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha. Noel has been a CantoMundo, Macondo, Ford Foundation, and Howard Foundation fellow, and his poem “San Juan Starry Night” is part of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico’s perma-nent exhibition. Based in the Bronx and originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, he is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University, and also teaches at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas.