Mark Nowak
Encyclopedia
Mark Nowak is an award-winning American
poet from Buffalo, New York
. Nowak is currently the director of the graduate creative writing program at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poet from Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
. Nowak is currently the director of the graduate creative writing program at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.
Works
- Revenants, Coffee House Press, 2000, ISBN 9781566891073
- Shut up shut down, Coffee House Press, 2004, ISBN 9781566891639
- Coal Mountain Elementary, Photographs Mark Nowak, Ian Teh, Coffee House Press, 2009, ISBN 9781566892285
Reviews
There are only a handful of contemporary artists who have found a way to recontextualize the working class consciousness and activism of the American labor movement into the poetics and media art of the 21st century, but perhaps the most consistently provocative of these is Buffalo native Mark Nowak.
Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that matter anywhere in the industrial world. It is also a tribute to miners and working people everywhere. It manages, in photos and in words, to portray an entire culture. And it is a stunning educational tool.