Noelle Kocot is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Soul In Space (Wave Books, 2013). Noelle 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.
Five hundred places is a press established by Jason Dodge in an attempt to bring new readers to some of the poets that have been so important to his thinking and working over the past decades.
