Noelle Kocot is the author of many collections of poetry, including God's Green Earth (Wave Books, 2020), Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, May 2016), Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013), The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of some of the poems of Tristan Corbière, Poet by Default (Wave Books, 2011). Her previous works include the discography Damon's Room, (Wave Books Pamphlet Series, 2010), Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009) and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006). She is also the author of 4 and The Raving Fortune (both from Four Way Books). Her poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry in 2001, 2012, and 2013. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry, the American Poetry Review, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, and she has taught at the University of Texas New Writers' Project and currently teaches part-time at the New School. She is the Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey.
Reviews
If this was Woodstock, Kocot was Hendrix. I have been to countless readings since but can think of only a few as unexpected, memorable, and moving.—Justin Taylor, Poetry Foundation Poems
- “Calling on Octavia” (in Bat City Review)
- “Pictures of Elk” (in Boston Review)
- Two poems (in Granta)
- “A Snowfall” (on Everyday Genius)
- “Compassion IV” (on Poets.Org)
- “Gnomon” (on The Daily Beast)
- “Talk” (on Poets.Org)
- “Beyond Recognition”(in Poets & Writers)
- Three poems (on The Awl)
- Two poems (in Gwarlingo)
- “Sonnet to Ash Wednesday” (on The Rumpus)
- “Arrow” (on Aesthetix)
- All poems from Noelle Kocot (on Verse Daily)
Interviews
- Boston Review, with Amy Newlove Schroeder
- Boog City, with Amy King
- The Rumpus, with The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
- BOMBblog, with Claire Wilcox
- Molossus, with David Shook
- Zyzzyva, with Maggie Millner
Audio
Video
Reading from Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems:
Reading from The Bigger World:
Reading in San Francisco on the Poetry Bus Tour: