Mark Nowak
{{short description|American poet}}
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Mark Nowak is an American poet, as well as cultural critic, playwright and essayist, from Buffalo, New York.[http://www.mville.edu/graduate/academics/arts-a-sciences/mfa-in-creative-writing/faculty/mark-nowak-director.html Manhattanville College website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113092410/http://www.mville.edu/graduate/academics/arts-a-sciences/mfa-in-creative-writing/faculty/mark-nowak-director.html |date=2013-01-13 }} - A native of Buffalo, New York. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
Nowak is a professor in the English Department at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.[http://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2010/04/poetics-of-activism-in-nowaks-coal-mountain-elementary.html "Poetics of activism in Nowak's "Coal Mountain Elementary""] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430143224/http://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2010/04/poetics-of-activism-in-nowaks-coal-mountain-elementary.html |date=2010-04-30 }}, Buffalo News, R.D. Pohl, April 02, 2010[http://zinnedproject.org/posts/10740 Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn]
Awards
- 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[http://www.gf.org/fellows/16838-mark-nowak Guggenheim Foundation website, Mark Nowak entry] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012101736/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16838-mark-nowak |date=2012-10-12 }}. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- 2015 Freedom Plow Award{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/03/mark-nowak-talks-about-his-poetry-activism-at-split-this-rock/|title=Mark Nowak Talks About His Poetry Activism at Split This Rock|date=14 December 2022 |publisher=Poetry Foundation}}
- 2015 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Works
- {{cite book |author=Mark Nowak |author-mask=2 |title=Revenants |year=2004 |publisher=Coffee House Press |isbn=978-1-56689-107-3}}
- {{cite book |author=Mark Nowak |author-mask=2 |title=Shut Up Shut Down: Poems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1_jlo8jj5EC |year=2004 |publisher=Coffee House Press |isbn=978-1-56689-163-9}}
- {{cite book |author=Mark Nowak |author-mask=2 |title=Coal Mountain Elementary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sc-bLdRDXTgC |year=2009 |publisher=Coffee House Press |isbn=978-1-56689-228-5}}
- {{Cite book |author=Mark Nowak |author-mask=2 |title=Social Poetics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwmZDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Coffee House Press |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-56689-567-5}}
References
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|video1=[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/04/conversation-poet-mark-nowak-and-director-april-daras-discuss-coal-mountain.html "Conversation: Poet Mark Nowak and Director April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary'"], PBS, April 24, 2009
|video2=[http://tunein.com/topic/?topicId=31684670 Mark Nowak and April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary'], PBS Newshour, April 2, 2015
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- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8606446.stm BBC World News America]
- [http://againstthegrain.org/node/324 "Against the Grain," KPFA]
- {{cite web| url=http://coalmountain.wordpress.com/ |title=Coal Mountain blog| publisher=wordpress| accessdate=September 21, 2010}}
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Category:English-language poets
Category:Writers from Buffalo, New York