. . . AGAIN

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 recently wrote an introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press). He is founding director of the Worker Writers School.

Praise for Mark Nowak“Nowak’s willingness to submerge his own voice beneath these other accounts, privileging other voices—those of survivors, widows, journalists—above his own. He is a legislator whose job is allowing others to be heard.” —The New York Times Sunday Book Review“Nowak develops a conception of poetry as a living archive and polyvocal expression of worker experiences within and beyond the workplace.” —Margaret Ronda, Los Angeles Review of Books“The aim of making poetry to make change, to make history, is what makes Nowak’s work most radical and most daring.” —The Kenyon Review“Mark Nowak is restoring the perspective of working class Americans to contemporary American poetry.” —Buffalo News“[Nowak] offers visionary steps for a way forward.” —William Harris, Jacobin