Upcoming Events

March 17, 2012

3:00pm: “US Working Class and the Current Crisis: A Roundtable” with Dale Maharidge, Peter Rachleff and Domestic Workers United, Left Forum (New York, NY)

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March 22, 2012

11:30am-1:00pm: “Poetry as Activism, Activism as Poetry” panel with Philip Metres, Jennifer Karmin, and Ken Chen, Split This Rock Poetry Festival (Washington, DC)

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March 23, 2012

9:30-11:00am: “Writing the Disaster,” a  public conversation with Patricia Smith, moderated by Marc Steiner (WEAA FM, 88.9, Baltimore), Split This Rock Poetry Festival (Washington, DC)

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April 12-13, 2012

TBA: Reading/Talk @ John Carroll University (Cleveland, OH)

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May 5, 2012

3:00pm: “There’s so much to say…”: Writings from the  Domestic Workers United Workshop @ PEN World Voices Festival (Wollman Hall, The New School, 65 West 11th Street,, New York)

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May 26

8:00-10:30pm:  Reading @ “Poetry & Revolution” conference with Maggie O’Sullivan, Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Joan Retallack, and Ulli Freer, Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College/University of London

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May 27

4:30pm: Conference Talk with United Migrant Worker Education Project + Justice for Domestic Workers @ “Poetry & Revolution” conference

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July 6

TBA: Reading/talk at Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA), Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, WV

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September 20

7:00pm: Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania

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February 18-March 1, 2013

TBA: Eminent Writer-in-Residence, MFA Program, University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY)



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Mark Nowak, a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004). He frequently speaks about global working class policies and issues, most recently on Al Jazeera, BBC World News America, BBC Radio 3, and Pacifica Radio’s “Against the Grain.” A native of Buffalo, New York, Nowak currently directs the MFA program at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. For information on bookings, contact Speak Out Now: The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture.


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