[1] Noll completed his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1948, after serving in the Merchant Marine from August 1945 to January 1947.
In 1950, he earned his MA degree from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with poet Karl Shapiro.
In 2017, poet David R. Slavitt selected and introduced a retrospective volume of Bink Noll's poetry for Little Island Press's Memento series.
He corresponded with several notable literary figures of the twentieth century, including poets William Meredith, Richard Eberhart, George Garrett, Willard Thorp, Ned O'Gorman, and W. S. Merwin.
Noll appears on the spoken word album Poets for Peace, produced under the auspices of the United States Fellowship of Reconciliation.
It records a group reading at New York's Town Hall on November 12, 1967. Notable readers and performers on the album include Robert Lowell, Anais Nin, and Arthur Miller.
American composer Burrill Phillips set Noll's words to music in "Song in a Winter Night: for soprano and piano" (1985).