Noel Quiñones
Noel Quiñones is a Puerto Rican poet, actor, organizer, and performance artist born and raised in the Bronx. He travels the country giving his talk "Beyond the Black/White Binary: The Inner Ethnic Conflict of Latinidad", seeking to explore the challenges that face Latinx people as well as the false narratives they carry in 21st century America.
As a writer he has received fellowships from CantoMundo, the Watering Hole, SAFTA, Brooklyn Poets, Candor Arts and was chosen as an Emerging Poets Fellow at Poets House. His work is forthcoming or published in the Latin American Review, Rattle, Tidal Music, Hot Metal Bridge, Asymptote, Pilgrimage Press, Connotation Press & elsewhere. In addition, his poetry has been included in both the Best of Kweli Journal Anthology and ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets. Quiñones was commissioned by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum last year to create a new work honoring those lost when the Towers fell. Most recently he was named a Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow, traveling to Chicago to network with community organizers in the poetry scene.
As a performer and actor he has featured with The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, The Poetry Gods, and BronxNet Television as well as performed at Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival, La Casita; the Nuyorican Poets Café, Write About Now - Houston, TX, and Jawdance - London. Noel has been featured at numerous colleges, universities, and K-12 schools across the country, such as Harvard University, American University, and King's College London, in addition to various cultural art spaces, non-profit organizations, and conferences, having been the Keynote Speaker at the first NYC Latinx Youth Conference, 2017. His performances have been showcased on Huffington Post, Vibe, Latina Magazine, Medium, Remezcla, Button Poetry, Mitú & elsewhere. He made his acting debut in Latin Lives' 25th Anniversary Show at the Producers Club.
With almost a decade of experience in the arts, Noel grew tired of the lack of space dedicated to showcasing and empowering Latinx voices. In October, 2017 he founded Project X, a Bronx based arts organization providing the borough with artistic community programming as well as the Bronx's own Slam Series to produce the first ever Bronx-based Slam Team headed to the National Poetry Slam. For all of his community work he was named one of New York State's 40 Under 40 Rising Latino Stars by the Hispanic Coalition of New York. Most recently he was selected as an Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow; he will be traveling to Lakota territory, Hawaii, and Texas to connect with fellow arts administrators of color to network and gain essential tools to uplift our respective communities.
Quiñones is currently the Creativity, Activity, and Service (C.A.S.) Coordinator at the Brooklyn Friends School and on a national tour.
Noel Quiñones is a Puerto Rican poet, actor, organizer, and performance artist born and raised in the Bronx. He travels the country giving his talk "Beyond the Black/White Binary: The Inner Ethnic Conflict of Latinidad", seeking to explore the challenges that face Latinx people as well as the false narratives they carry in 21st century America.
As a writer he has received fellowships from CantoMundo, the Watering Hole, SAFTA, Brooklyn Poets, Candor Arts and was chosen as an Emerging Poets Fellow at Poets House. His work is forthcoming or published in the Latin American Review, Rattle, Tidal Music, Hot Metal Bridge, Asymptote, Pilgrimage Press, Connotation Press & elsewhere. In addition, his poetry has been included in both the Best of Kweli Journal Anthology and ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets. Quiñones was commissioned by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum last year to create a new work honoring those lost when the Towers fell. Most recently he was named a Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow, traveling to Chicago to network with community organizers in the poetry scene.
As a performer and actor he has featured with The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, The Poetry Gods, and BronxNet Television as well as performed at Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival, La Casita; the Nuyorican Poets Café, Write About Now - Houston, TX, and Jawdance - London. Noel has been featured at numerous colleges, universities, and K-12 schools across the country, such as Harvard University, American University, and King's College London, in addition to various cultural art spaces, non-profit organizations, and conferences, having been the Keynote Speaker at the first NYC Latinx Youth Conference, 2017. His performances have been showcased on Huffington Post, Vibe, Latina Magazine, Medium, Remezcla, Button Poetry, Mitú & elsewhere. He made his acting debut in Latin Lives' 25th Anniversary Show at the Producers Club.
With almost a decade of experience in the arts, Noel grew tired of the lack of space dedicated to showcasing and empowering Latinx voices. In October, 2017 he founded Project X, a Bronx based arts organization providing the borough with artistic community programming as well as the Bronx's own Slam Series to produce the first ever Bronx-based Slam Team headed to the National Poetry Slam. For all of his community work he was named one of New York State's 40 Under 40 Rising Latino Stars by the Hispanic Coalition of New York. Most recently he was selected as an Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow; he will be traveling to Lakota territory, Hawaii, and Texas to connect with fellow arts administrators of color to network and gain essential tools to uplift our respective communities.
Quiñones is currently the Creativity, Activity, and Service (C.A.S.) Coordinator at the Brooklyn Friends School and on a national tour.
