Noelle Kocot (born 1970) is an

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. They are the author of nine full-length collections of

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, including' "Ascent of the Mothers" (forthcoming, Wave Books),'God's Green Earth'' (Wave Books, 2020)'', Phantom Pains of Madness'' (

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, 2016), ''Soul in Space'' (

, 2013), ''The Bigger World'' (

, 2011) ''Sunny Wednesday'' (

, 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)

Career

Kocot teaches part time at

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in the creative writing program, and has also taught at the New Writers Project in

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. They are a graduate of Oberlin College.

Personal life

Kocot was born and raised in

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, and now resides in

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, where they are the poet laureate of Pemberton Borough. Kocot was hospitalized in 2000 at

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, 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.''

Writing and awards

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'', 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" They have also published ''Poet By Default'' (

, 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, 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

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anthologies for 2001, 2012 and 2013 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." 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.Matthew Paul. Let's Get Metaphysical
''Sphinx Reviews'', 2020 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).

Bibliography

"Ascent of the Mothers" (forthcoming, Wave Books) *"Under Gemini" (Five Hundred Places Press, 2020), chapbook, 2 volumes (Berlin) *''God's Green Earth'' (

, 2020) *''Humanity'' ( SurVision Books, 2018) - chapbook, 34 pages (Ireland) *''Sonnets''-
Clinic Publishing
2017) - chapbook, 28 pages (UK) *''Phantom Pains of Madness'' (

, May 2016) *''Soul in Space'' (

, October 2013) *''Poet By Default'' (translations of

Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29 ...

) (

, 2011) *''The Bigger World'' (

, 2011) *''Damon's Room'' (a bibliographic pamphlet) (

, 2010) *''Sunny Wednesday'' (

, 2009) *''Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems'' (

, 2006) *''The Raving Fortune'' (

Four Way Books Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well ...

, 2004) *''4'' (

, 2001)

Reviews

* 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''

References

External links

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