Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, he has a PhD (Spanish) from New York University, 2008; an M.A.
[20] Noel is the author of several poetry collections, including his debut collection Kool Logic/La lógica kool, Boringkén, Hi-Density Politics, and Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico, focused on the "promotion of hemispheric politics and poetics, along with its interrogation of technology's structural and narrative interventions into diasporic cultures.
[21]" Critic Kristin Dykstra notes that "Taken collectively the books produce a historic meditation that collides with, and intensifies, the frenetic energies emphasizing the immediacy of urban life.
Noel edited and translated Pablo de Rokha's Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry (Shearsman Books, 2018).
Death and Taxesfrom Kool Logic (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2005) In the Faraway Suburbsfrom Kool Logic (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2005) ode to coffee oda al caféfrom PoetryNow(2016) No Longer Odefrom Poem-a-Dayon August 13, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets.