What's New in Poetry Reading Series with Mark Nowak
A poetry reading followed by a Q&A.
Bio: Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and …AGAIN, all from Coffee House Press. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Creative Capital foundations. Nowak’s work on poetry by incarcerated writers of the 1970s includes his introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022) and his essay “Workshops of Abolition: Attica Print Culture and Small Press Poetry,” published in The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2024). He is founding director of the Worker Writers School.
Pizza and other refreshments provided. Free books for the first 30 audience members!
Supported by: College of Liberal Arts, Department of English, and Navas-Robbins Poetry Fund.
Please submit interpreting requests to myAccess.rit.edu.
Event Snapshot
When and Where
Who
This is an RIT Only Event
Interpreter Requested?
No