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An Interview with Mark Nowak

An Interview with Mark Nowak MARK NOWAK Lisa Lisa Arrastı Arrastı ´a ´a an interview with MARK NOWAK Conducted by Steel Wagstaff ocumentary poet, social critic, and labor activist Mark Nowak was born in 1964 to a working-class family and raised in a predominantly Polish neigh- borhood in Buffalo, New York. After completing his M.F.A. at Bowling Green State University, Nowak taught for fif- teen years at an open-enrollment community college in Minne- apolis, Minnesota, and is now the director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Mary- land. He is the author of three books, all published by Coffee House Press: Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009). Nowak edited Theodore Enslin’s Then and Now: Selected Poems, 1943–1993 (National Poetry Foundation, 1999) and coedited, with Diane Glancy, the anthology Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours (Cof- fee House, 1999). His essays and criticism have been published in The Progressive, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke UP, 2007). Nowak is the founding editor of the journal XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and has been active on the Web both as a contributor to the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog and as the operator http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

An Interview with Mark Nowak

Wagstaff, Steel.; Nowak, Mark,
Contemporary Literature , Volume 51 (3) – Jan 14, 2011
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MARK NOWAK Lisa Lisa Arrastı Arrastı ´a ´a an interview with MARK NOWAK Conducted by Steel Wagstaff ocumentary poet, social critic, and labor activist Mark Nowak was born in 1964 to a working-class family and raised in a predominantly Polish neigh- borhood in Buffalo, New York. After completing his M.F.A. at Bowling Green State University, Nowak taught for fif- teen years at an open-enrollment community college in Minne- apolis, Minnesota, and is now the director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Mary- land. He is the author of three books, all published by Coffee House Press: Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009). Nowak edited Theodore Enslin’s Then and Now: Selected Poems, 1943–1993 (National Poetry Foundation, 1999) and coedited, with Diane Glancy, the anthology Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours (Cof- fee House, 1999). His essays and criticism have been published in The Progressive, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke UP, 2007). Nowak is the founding editor of the journal XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and has been active on the Web both as a contributor to the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog and as the operator

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