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Book Talk: Orange with Noel Quiñones & Nic Nichols
Thu, May 07
|Cafe con Libros
Join us as we welcome award-winning poet Noel Quiñones in celebration of their debut poetry collection, Orange! Noel Quiñones will be joined in conversation by Brooklyn poet and photographer Nic Nichols for a discussion on Orange! Q&A to follow.
Time & Location
May 07, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
About the Event
About the Book & Authors
A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx.
Through narrative poems and innovative forms inspired by color theory and elementary school, Orange explores the ripple effects of queerness, lies, and finding yourself in a family. In this visceral new collection, however, the scope of "family" expands well beyond the nuclear unit; Noel Quiñones's poems center relationships between friends, cousins, partners, and many other family members. Painting a vivid and fraught portrait of the North Bronx, Quiñones unflinchingly confronts the contradictions at the heart of love, divorce, gender, religion, and community, unpacking the complexities of coming out, divorced parents, and generational trauma. Orange ultimately argues that truth resembles color: something real, yet elusive, and impossible to prove.
Noel Quiñones is an Emmy award-winning writer of all genres from the Bronx. Noel is the author of the interactive poetry collection Orange…
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