Document Type
Interview
Repository Citation
Clinton, Alan, and Mark Nowak. "Chronicles in the First Person Plural: An Interview with Mark Nowak." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 10, no. 3, 2010, pp. 1–8. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol10/iss3/5
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From Contributors:
Mark Nowak, a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, is an experimental writer, labor activist, and editor of the influential journal Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics. He is the author of three books from Coffee House Press: Revenants (2000), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), and co-editor with Diane Glancy of an anthology of Native poetry and poetics, Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours (1999), also with Coffee House. His collection of essays from Palm Press, ¡Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight! (2005), discusses the potential roles of poetry in activism, his work with the Union of Radical Workers and Writers in fighting unfair labor practices among large book retailers, and the idea of organizing poetry collectives among workers around the world. He blogs at Coal Mountain.