Mark Nowak will read from his new book, Coal Mountain Elementary

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Thursday, June 4, 7pm
Arise! Books and Resources Center
2441 Lyndale Avenue S., Minneapolis
612.871.7110 | [e-mail]

Mark Nowak will read from his new book, Coal Mountain Elementary, as well as speak on his “poetry dialogues” with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa, striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), and Muslim nurses (as featured on NPR’s “Marketplace”).

http://coalmountain.wordpress.com/
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781566892285-0

Nowak is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004). For the past several years he has been designing and facilitating “poetry dialogues” with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa (through the UAW and NUMSA), striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), Muslim/Somali nurses and healthcare workers (through Rufaidah), and others. Nowak’s writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007), American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan, 2007), The Progressive, and elsewhere. A native of Buffalo, New York, he now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota where he is an Associate Professor at the College of St. Catherine.

“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.” -Howard Zinn