Red Emma’s

Join us for a reading by the poet, social critic, and labor activist Mark Nowak. Nowak is the author of three books of poetry: Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Revenants (2000). Combining radical pedagogy and documentary poetics, Nowak’s work explores the possibilities of working-class literature in the present. A native of Buffalo, NY, he directs the MFA Program at Manhattanville College as well as the Worker Writers School at the PEN American Center. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry and Activism from Split This Rock. Nowak’s visit is co-sponsored by the Arrighi Center for Global Studies and the Johns Hopkins Department of English.