Noelle Kocot

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.

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]

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).

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

• "Under Gemini" (Five Hundred Places Press, 2020), chapbook, 2 volumes (Berlin)
• 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)

• EcoTheo Review https://www.ecotheo.org/grace-and-ongoingness-noelle-kocots-path-among-the-forms/—
• 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

• Noelle Kocot at Wave Books
• Noelle Kocot at the Poetry Foundation