Noelle Kocot

Noelle Kocot is an American poet. She is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, including the forthcoming 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) and Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009).

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

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. She is a graduate of Oberlin College.

Personal Life

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

She was married to the composer Damon Tomblin, whose death of a drug overdose in 2004 inspired her collection Sunny Wednesday.[2]

In 2000, Kocot was in Bellevue Hospital, where she was diagnosed with manic-depression.

Writing and Awards

The New York Times, reviewing her 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] She has 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 her 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). Her 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 her 2007 collection in Jacket Magazine, critic Craig Johnson noted her "broad brushstrokes and a large intoxicated surrealistic vision."[6] Matthew Paul, reviewing her 2018 chapbook, stressed the visual aspects of her surrealistic approach to writing: she "can cast an intriguingly surreal spell through compelling imagery.[7]

Bibliography

Reviews

--The White Review https://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/noelle-kocots-gods-green-earth/ --https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/153642/after-the-hard-living --Justin Taylor's article with The Poetry Foundation --https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781950268023 Starred review in Publishers Weekly of God's Green Earth

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. "Poetry Chronicle". 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
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