Mark Nowak
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| Nationality | American |
| Genre | poetry |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Mark Nowak is an award-winning American poet, as well as cultural critic, playwright and essayist, from Buffalo, New York.[1] Nowak is currently the director of the graduate creative writing program at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.[2]
Awards
- 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[3]
- 2015 Freedom Plow Award[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
References
- ↑ Manhattanville College website - A native of Buffalo, New York. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ↑ Manhattanville College website - Nowak, Mark, Associate Professor. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ↑ Guggenheim Foundation website, Mark Nowak entry. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ↑ "Mark Nowak Talks About His Poetry Activism at Split This Rock". Poetry Foundation.
- ↑ "Poetics of activism in Nowak's "Coal Mountain Elementary"", Buffalo News, R.D. Pohl, April 02, 2010
- ↑ Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn
External links
 "Conversation: Poet Mark Nowak and Director April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary'", PBS, April 24, 2009 | |
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Mark Nowak and April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary', PBS Newshour, April 2, 2015 |
- BBC World News America
- "Against the Grain," KPFA
- "Coal Mountain blog". wordpress. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
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