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.^[2][3]

Mark Nowak
Nationality	American
Genre	poetry
Notable awards	Guggenheim Fellowship

Awards

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 2015 Freedom Plow Award^[5]

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

References

1. Manhattanville College website 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"" 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 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.

External links

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

• BBC World News America
• "Against the Grain," KPFA
• "Coal Mountain blog". wordpress. Retrieved September 21, 2010.