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.[2][3]

Mark Nowak
NationalityAmerican
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship

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Works edit

  • 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.
  • Mark Nowak (2020). Social Poetics. Coffee House Press. ISBN 978-1-56689-567-5.


References edit

  1. ^ Manhattanville College website Archived 2013-01-13 at the Wayback Machine - A native of Buffalo, New York. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  2. ^ "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
  3. ^ Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn
  4. ^ Guggenheim Foundation website, Mark Nowak entry Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Mark Nowak Talks About His Poetry Activism at Split This Rock". Poetry Foundation. 14 December 2022.

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External videos
  "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