Mark Nowak's guest appearances

Mark Nowak

Interviews by Brainard Carey

New Books in Literary Studies

New Books Network

New Books in Performing Arts

New Books in Politics and Polemics

Mark Nowak - Reading from His Work

Lannan Center Podcast 

Marxist Poetry

Poem-a-Day

Shane McCrae

Linda Francis

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Jericho Brown

David Clark

Shawn Theodore

Salman Rushdie

Bernardine Evaristo

José Olivarez

Eric Fleischauer

Annie Sprinkle

Tony Conrad

Perdita Finn

Clark Strand

William Wegman

OwlTail

Recorded by Mark Nowak for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 21, 2023. www.poets.org

Recorded by Mark Nowak for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 21, 2023. <a href="https://www.poets.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.poets.org</a>

Mark Nowak: from "...Again"

On February 8th, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Mark Nowak. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.About Mark NowakMark Nowak is the author of four poetry collections: Social Poetics (Coffee House Press, 2020), Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Revenants (2000). Also a playwright, essayist, social critic, and labor activist, Nowak’s writing documents the hardships and injustices faced by the global working class. Nowak is the recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry &amp; Activism from Split This Rock and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at St. Catherine University and Washington College, where he also worked as director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House. He has also led poetry workshops for workers and trade unions in Belgium, the Netherlands, the U.K., the U.S., and South Africa. He is currently Professor of English at Manhattanville College and the founding director, in collaboration with PEN America, of the Worker Writers School.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

On February 8th, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Mark Nowak. Moderated by Carolyn Forché. About Mark Nowak Mark Nowak is the author of four poetry collections: Social Poetics (Coffee House Press, 2020), Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Revenants (2000). Also a playwright, essayist, social critic, and labor activist, Nowak’s writing documents the hardships and injustices faced by the global working class. Nowak is the recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry &amp; Activism from Split This Rock and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at St. Catherine University and Washington College, where he also worked as director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House. He has also led poetry workshops for workers and trade unions in Belgium, the Netherlands, the U.K., the U.S., and South Africa. He is currently Professor of English at Manhattanville College and the founding director, in collaboration with PEN America, of the Worker Writers School. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Mark Nowak | 2021-2022 Readings & Talks

Mark Nowak discusses Social Poetics and the @WorkerWriters School 

Mark Nowak discusses <a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/products/social-poetics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Social Poetics </a>and the @<a href="https://twitter.com/WorkerWriters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WorkerWriters</a> School

Social Poetics with Mark Nowak

Worker Writers School workshop (with Mark in the center)Mark Nowak is the author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down (a New York Times Editor’s Choice”), Coal Mountain Elementary (which Howard Zinn called “a stunning educational tool”), and Social Poetics (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He is a Guggenheim fellow (2010), a Lannan Literary Fellow (2015), and recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry and Activism. A native of Buffalo, Nowak is the founding director of the Worker Writers School, currently in its eight year of collaboration with PEN America, and a professor at Manhattanville College.WWS member Seth Goldman reading workshop poems outside NYTWA City Hall protests to cap Uber &amp; Left (which passed the next day)Tanka Workers Collective chapbook release party at Berl’s Poetry shop

Worker Writers School workshop (with Mark in the center) Mark Nowak is the author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down (a New York Times Editor’s Choice”), Coal Mountain Elementary (which Howard Zinn called “a stunning educational tool”), and Social Poetics (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He is a Guggenheim fellow (2010), a Lannan Literary Fellow (2015), and recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry and Activism. A native of Buffalo, Nowak is the founding director of the Worker Writers School, currently in its eight year of collaboration with PEN America, and a professor at Manhattanville College. WWS member Seth Goldman reading workshop poems outside NYTWA City Hall protests to cap Uber &amp; Left (which passed the next day) Tanka Workers Collective chapbook release party at Berl’s Poetry shop