Orange

Noel Quiñones reads from his visceral new poetry collection, a portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx. Through narrative poems and innovative forms inspired by color theory, Orange explores queerness, lies, and finding yourself within chosen and biological family—centering relationships between friends, cousins, partners, and beyond. Quiñones unflinchingly confronts the contradictions at the heart of love, divorce, gender, religion, and community, unpacking coming out, divorced parents, and generational trauma. Truth, the collection argues, resembles color: something real, yet elusive, and impossible to prove.