Noelle Kocot: Bicycle Poem

OK, here’s the scenario. You’re at a reading, the reading’s just ended, all are milling, and you spot an interesting poet, this would be Noelle Kocot-Tomblin, and you are chatting away. You stop. “Hey wait, you say, do you have a poem! I need a poem!” And like that, unfurling from her mouth, a sparkling piece of the divine. Surely it’s one of the greatest poems ever written.

“Bicycle Poem”
by Noelle Kocot

Noelle Kocot’s next book, Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems, will be published by Wave Books in 2006. You can read a good number of her poems online:

• Four poems from 4 appear at “Reading Between A and B.”
• “While Writing” & “Passing Over Water” are posted at the site of her publisher, Four Way Books.
• “Love, Alters, Everything” was published in the special LA/NY edition of The East Village.
• “Palm Sunday 1998” appeared in Lungfull #12.
• “Sestina for Lizzette” was in Jacket 16.
• Three of her poems appear in the online selections from Lit, New School Literary Journal.
• “Love Poem on the Anniversary of Nowhere” is posted in both text & audio at the NEA Writers Corner.

• 4 (her first collection, Four Way Books, 2001)
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• The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books, 2004)
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