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).
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Born | Brooklyn, New York |
Occupation | Poet |
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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. 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]
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
- God's Green Earth (Wave Books, 2020)
- Humanity (SurVision Books, 2018) - chapbook, 34 pages (Ireland)
- Sonnets- (Clinic Publishing, 2017) - chapbook, 28 pages (UK)
- Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, May 2016)
- Soul in Space (Wave Books, October 2013)
- Poet By Default (translations of Tristan Corbière) (Wave Books, 2011)
- The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011)
- Damon's Room (a bibliographic pamphlet) (Wave Books, 2010)
- Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009)
- Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006)
- The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books, 2004)
- 4 (Four Way Books, 2001)
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
- Review of The Bigger World in The Rumpus
- Review of The Bigger World at Coldfront
- Publishers Weekly reviews Sunny Wednesday
- The New York Times reviews Poem for the End of Time
References
- Wave Books > Noelle Kocot Author Page
- Johnson, David (2013-05-29). "The World Is Really Falling Apart". Boston Review. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
- The title poem was written in 2000 and published first in The Iowa Review in 2003. "Poetry Chronicle". Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- National Endowment for the Arts > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers > Creative Writing Fellows Archived August 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- Reading Between A and B > Four Poems by Noelle Kocot & Bio
- "In search of the end of America" by Craig Johnson, Jacket #33, July 2007
- Matthew Paul. Let's Get Metaphysical Sphinx Reviews, 2020