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An Interview with Mark Nowak

An Interview with Mark Nowak M A R K N O W A K Lisa Arrastia ´ 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 neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. After completing his M.F.A. at Bowling Green State University, Nowak taught for fifteen years at an open-enrollment community college in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is now the director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. 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, 1943­1993 (National Poetry Foundation, 1999) and coedited, with Diane Glancy, the anthology Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours (Coffee 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.
Contemporary Literature , Volume 51 (3) – Jan 14, 2010
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M A R K N O W A K Lisa Arrastia ´ 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 neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. After completing his M.F.A. at Bowling Green State University, Nowak taught for fifteen years at an open-enrollment community college in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is now the director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. 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, 1943­1993 (National Poetry Foundation, 1999) and coedited, with Diane Glancy, the anthology Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours (Coffee 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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