Past Events

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

1:30PM: Talk/Reading at Carnegie Mellon University, Creative Writing Program, Porter Hall, Room A18A

8:00PM: University of Pittsburgh, Theatre Department. Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learning (Staging of CME by students from Davis & Elkins College)

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

NOON: Lecture, “Labor history with line breaks,” at West Virginia University, History Department, Student Union (Rhododendron Room)

4:30PM: Documentary Poetry Workshop, Davis & Elkins College

8:00PM: Opening of CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia (4 night run) – Booksigning afterwards in Boilerhouse Lobby

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Friday, April 17, 2009

11:00AM: Appalachian Literature Class Visit (Prof. Peter Okun), Davis & Elkins College

4:00PM: Coffee house talk w/ Creative Writing students (Prof. Bill King), The Icehouse, Davis & Elkins College

8:00PM: CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College – Booksigning afterwards in Boilerhouse Lobby

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

8:00PM: CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College

Mark in Maryland

11:00AM: Reading/Talk at National Labor College (AFL-CIO), Silver Spring, MD, @ the United Association of Labor Educators (UALE) Conference, North Classroom Building, Room 7102

7:00PM: Reading/Talk at Red Emma’s Bookstore, Baltimore, MD

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

2:00PM: Closing of CME at Boilerhouse Theater, Davis & Elkins College – Booksigning afterwards in Boilerhouse Lobby

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Monday, April 20, 2009

7:30PM: Reading at Shippensburg University (Taggart Reading Series), Dauphin Humanities Center 051

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Thursday, April 23, 2009 thru Saturday, April 25, 2009

Davis & Elkins College Theater Students will be performing Coal Mountain Elementary at community locations across West Virginia (Logan County, Sutton, etc.). Check back soon for details.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

3:00PM: Reading/Talk @ University of Iowa, English Department

7:00PM: Reading @ Prairie Lights Bookstore

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

NOON: Season Opening Lecture, John L. Lewis Museum of Mining and Labor, Lucas, Iowa

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Thursday, May 7, 2009

11:00AM: KFAI, “Write on Radio”

7:00PM: Reading, Untold Stories, Labor Histories Series, Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, Rondo Library (with the Twin Cities Labor Chorus)

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

7:00PM: Reading with Emmanuel Ortiz, Mayday Bookstore, Minneapolis

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

12:42 PM (EST): Interview on “Word of Mouth” (New Hampshire Public Radio)

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

7:00PM: Arise! Bookstore, Minneapolis

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Mark Nowak is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004). For the past several years he has been designing and facilitating “poetry dialogues” with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa (through the UAW and NUMSA), striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), Muslim/Somali nurses and healthcare workers (through Rufaidah), and others. Nowak’s writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007), American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan, 2007), The Progressive, and elsewhere. A native of Buffalo, New York, he currently works as Director of the Rose O\’Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. For information on bookings, contact Speak Out Now: The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture.