Noelle Kocot is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Soul In Space (Wave Books, 2013). Kocot also translated Tristan Corbiere’s poems from French which appear in a book called Poet By Default (Wave 2011). She is the recipient of numerous awards for her poems, including The American Poetry Review, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Literary Foundation, The Fund for Poetry and The Academy of American Poets. Kocot’s work has been widely anthologized, including in Best American Poetry 2001, 2012 and 2013 and Postmodern Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

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