Upcoming Events

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

4:30PM: Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

6:30PM: “Poetry Dialogue” with unions/workers, Fort Wayne, Indiana

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

11:00AM: Swingshift College/Labor Studies Program, Indiana University Northwest (Gary, IN)

6:30PM: Poetry Center, Chicago

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

7:30PM: Michigan State University/Labor History Speakers Series (105 S. Kedzie)

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Friday, October 23, 2009

3:00PM: North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, panel presentation on “Creative Labor: Writers, Journalists, and the Class Imagination”

7:00PM: Reading at Book Beat, Oak Park, MI.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

8:30AM-1:30PM: Visiting Writer, “In Celebration of Books,” Gunston Day School, Centreville, MD

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

5:30PM: Mills College, Oakland (Contemporary Writers Series)

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

7:00PM: UC-Santa Cruz (Living Writers Series)

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

8:00PM: Poetics Research Bureau, Los Angeles

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

7:00PM: Small Press Traffic, San Francisco (“On Class Warfare,” with Reid Gomez and Rachel Loden)

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

9:30AM-1:30PM: Visiting Writer, Reservoir High School, Fulton, MD

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

11:30AM-2:00PM: Visiting Writer, Glen Burnie High School, Glen Burnie, MD

6:30PM: Reading/Talk, Institute for Policy Studies (with the Beehive Design Collective), Washington, DC

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March 10-13, 2010

Split This Rock Poetry Festival
WASHINGTON, DC

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April 6-13, 2009

Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series, University of Oklahoma, and workshops with Oklahoma trade unions



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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 theĀ 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.