Mark Nowak

Mark Nowak is an American poet, as well as cultural critic, playwright and essayist, from Buffalo, New York.[1] Nowak is a professor in the English Department at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.

Mark Nowak
NationalityAmerican
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship

Awards

Works
  • Revenants, Coffee House Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-56689-107-3
  • Mark Nowak (2004). Shut Up Shut Down: Poems. Coffee House Press. ISBN 978-1-56689-163-9.
  • Mark Nowak (2009). Coal Mountain Elementary. Coffee House Press. ISBN 978-1-56689-228-5.

Reviews

There are only a handful of contemporary artists who have found a way to recontextualize the working class consciousness and activism of the American labor movement into the poetics and media art of the 21st century, but perhaps the most consistently provocative of these is Buffalo native Mark Nowak.[4]

Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that matter anywhere in the industrial world. It is also a tribute to miners and working people everywhere. It manages, in photos and in words, to portray an entire culture. And it is a stunning educational tool.[5]

References
  1. Manhattanville College website Archived 2013-01-13 at the Wayback Machine - A native of Buffalo, New York. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  2. Guggenheim Foundation website, Mark Nowak entry Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  3. "Mark Nowak Talks About His Poetry Activism at Split This Rock". Poetry Foundation.
  4. "Poetics of activism in Nowak's "Coal Mountain Elementary"" Archived 2010-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Buffalo News, R.D. Pohl, April 02, 2010
  5. Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn
External video
"Conversation: Poet Mark Nowak and Director April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary'", PBS, April 24, 2009
Mark Nowak and April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary', PBS Newshour, April 2, 2015
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