This lecture features renowned poet and scholar Tomás Urayoán Noel. Urayoán is the author of four books of poetry written in both Spanish and English, including Kool Logic (La lógica kool, 2005) and, most recently, Hi-Density Politics (2010). Urayoán is currently finishing a book manuscript on the aesthetics of performance in Nuyorican poetry.

This event is presented by Northwestern University and co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, the Latina and Latino Studies Program, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium.

This event contains explicit language.

Recorded Monday, February 21, 2011 at Northwestern University.