Noelle Kocot

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Noelle Kocot
Born
Brooklyn, New York
OccupationPoet
Notable work
  • God's Green Earth
  • Phantom Pains of Madness
  • May
  • Soul in Space
  • The Bigger World
  • Sunny Wednesday

Noelle Kocot (born 1970) is an American poet. They are the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including Ascent of the Mothers (Wave Books, 2023),'God's Green Earth (Wave Books, 2020), Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, 2016), Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013), The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011) Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009), "Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems" (Wave Books, 2006), The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books, 2004) and 4 (Four Way Books, 2001)

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Career

Kocot teaches part time at The New School in the creative writing program, and has also taught at the New Writers Project in Austin, Texas. They are a graduate of Oberlin College.

Personal life

Kocot was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and now resides in New Jersey, where they are the poet laureate of Pemberton Borough. [1]

Kocot was hospitalized in 2000 at Bellevue Hospital, where they were diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

They were married to the composer Damon Tomblin, whose death of a drug overdose in 2004 inspired their collection Sunny Wednesday. [2]

Writing and awards

The New York Times , reviewing their 2006 book Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems, noted that "these poems are saturated with despair, but cling to a grim, even masochistic hopefulness," and called the title poem."extraordinary" [3] They have also published Poet By Default (Wave Books, 2011), a limited-edition collection of translations of the poems of Tristan Corbière. Kocot has received numerous honors for their poetry, including a NEA fellowship, [4] A Fund for Poetry grant (2001), the S.J. Marks Memorial Award from The American Poetry Review, the Greenwall Prize from the Academy of American Poets (2001) a Lannan Fellowship (2014). Their work has been included in many anthologies, such as The Best American Poetry anthologies for 2001, 2012 and 2013 [5] and the 2013 edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Reviewing their 2007 collection in Jacket Magazine, critic Craig Johnson noted their "broad brushstrokes and a large intoxicated surrealistic vision." [6] Matthew Paul, reviewing their 2018 chapbook, stressed the visual aspects of their surrealistic approach to writing: they "can cast an intriguingly surreal spell through compelling imagery. [7] Their work has been written about in several books, including, Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought by Paul Magee (Rowman and Littlefield; London and New York, 2022). Kocot's poetry is being displayed from April, 2024-April 2025 in J. Hood Wright Park in Manhattan, sponsored by The Poetry Society of America and The NY Parks Department. Kocot's poetry has been widely anthologized and is published in over 30 countries.

Bibliography

"Ascent of the Mothers" (Wave Books, 2023)

Reviews

https://www.6sqft.com/poetry-pops-up-in-five-new-york-city-parks/ https://harpers.org/archive/2024/01/flowers-noelle-kocot-ascent-of-the-mothers/ https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/ https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781950268870

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References

  1. Wave Books > Noelle Kocot Author Page
  2. Johnson, David (2013-05-29). "The World Is Really Falling Apart". Boston Review. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  3. The title poem was written in 2000 and published first in The Iowa Review in 2003.McHenry, Eric; Brouwer, Joel (23 April 2006). "Poetry Chronicle". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  4. National Endowment for the Arts > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers > Creative Writing Fellows Archived August 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Reading Between A and B > Four Poems by Noelle Kocot & Bio
  6. "In search of the end of America" by Craig Johnson, Jacket #33, July 2007
  7. Matthew Paul. Let's Get Metaphysical Sphinx Reviews, 2020