Urayoán Noel
urayoan.bsky.social
Urayoán Noel
@urayoan.bsky.social
Poet, critic, translator, performer, professor @ NYU, board VP @ Clemente Center, editor-in-chief @ Intervenxions (The Latinx Project) Bronx, Río Piedras 🇵🇷

https://urayoannoel.com/
Berkeley folks: I’ll be at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social tomorrow at noon discussing my self-translations & my translations of Wingston González & Nicole Cecilia Delgado!
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.
Rapid Response Emergency Fund
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August 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Un honor ser parte (entre performances de tanta gente que admiro) de esta magna celebración de los 10 años del #macenelbarrio este domingo en la Sala Sinfónica Pablo Casals! ¡No se lo pierdan!
June 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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A critical reflection by Nelson Maldonado-Torres.
The U.S. at 250, Coloniality, and Political Zionism in Perspective | Political Theology Network
What does the 250th anniversary of the U.S. mean for the “condemned of the earth”?
politicaltheology.com
May 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Bronx is fly, whether raptors or crows greet you while walking!
May 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Skilled immigration (OPT) on the chopping block? "foreign graduates of US universities cause major increases in innovation...A 10 % rise in the number of foreign graduates causes a 2 to 3.6 % rise in new patents, an effect even larger" for graduate students.
@mclem
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April 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thrilled to be hosting the great poet & translator Kristin Dykstra (my mentor in translation) Tuesday at NYU as part of my undergraduate translation workshop at NYU. She’ll be reading from her debut poetry collection @uchicagopress.bsky.social & from her translations of Marcelo Morales & others.
April 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In Chicago to read at UC & UIC today and tomorrow alongside some incredible folks. I took two LGA selfies for the road @alttext.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth #poet #translator
April 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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It’s not uncommon for foreigners to buy U.S. stock through a vehicle in the Cayman Islands, often to save money on taxes. But experts said it was strange for the party on the other side of a deal — the U.S. company — to prefer such an arrangement.

@justinelliott.bsky.social
@josh-kaplan.bsky.social
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is…
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March 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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New on Intervenxions—Scent, Memory & Identity in Caribbean and Latinx Contexts

La Escuela del Olor reengages with Puerto Rico’s “history, ecology, and collective memory” through olfaction.

By Idaliz Román Pérez

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
March 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#Bronx evening sky with red tailed hawk #guaraguao
March 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
With Nuyorican & Diasporican art co-editor Yasmin Ramirez & former @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social artists in residence Dalila Sanabria & Mildred Beltré last night at the fantastic #RicanVisions opening!
February 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Felicidades to all the curators & staff on last night’s opening of the sensational @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social exhibition #RicanVisions! I was thrilled to write about Orlando Estrada (whose work is in the middle photo), Juanita Lanzo & Manuel Acevedo for the forthcoming catalog. Don’t miss it!
February 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Felicidades @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social! & in such amazing company! I had the honor and of blurbing this mighty book & have not stopped thinking about it since! Orgullo!
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
January 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
#Poetas, please submit! I can’t wait to check out your work!
Every spring, Intervenxions publishes La Treintena, a list of outstanding poetry books of the past year or so. To create the most expansive list, we're accepting submissions for the 2025 list for books published on or after April 2024.

Learn more: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/la-treintena
January 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Gracias Víctor Hernández Cruz & Academy of American Poets for featuring my poem (which I wrote during my residency at the wondrous La Impresora early in the year while listening to la gran Villano Antillano) in Poem-a-Day!

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December 24, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Excited that Visualizing Latinx—exploring Latinx independent filmmakers, fashion designers, public art, and Latinx studies in U.S. universities—is one step closer to publication! Just signed contract to publish this homage to Latinx creativity in the visual arts w
@dukepress.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Grackle (chango en Boricua) eating a lizard; wood stork; great blue heron; northern mockingbird #birdsofflorida #birdsofbluesky
December 24, 2024 at 12:29 AM
December 24, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Thank you so much, @urayoan.bsky.social, for this beautiful shoutout! Your support means the world. It’s an honor to have my work and rooster journey featured in such a hallowed hall. Deep gratitude @roqueraquel.bsky.social and @latinxprojnyu for this conversation and the space for our stories. 💜
November 20, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Brilliant conversation and brilliant book! Gracias @roqueraquel.bsky.social & @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social! An honor to feature you!
New on Intervenxions—From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf

“It takes care to write a book like Consider the Rooster and a great deal of vulnerability.”

By Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (@roqueraquel.bsky.social)

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
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