{"id":6981,"date":"2019-02-21T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/mark-nowak\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:18:55","slug":"mark-nowak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/mark-nowak\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Nowak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8779 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2286-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2286-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2286-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2286-4.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2286-5.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worker Writers School workshop (with Mark in the center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mark Nowak is the author of <i class=\"\">Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down<\/i>&nbsp;(a <i class=\"\">New York Times <\/i>Editor&rsquo;s Choice&rdquo;), <i class=\"\">Coal Mountain Elementary<\/i>&nbsp;(which Howard Zinn called &ldquo;a stunning educational tool&rdquo;), and <i class=\"\">Social Poetics<\/i>&nbsp;(forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He is a Guggenheim fellow (2010), a Lannan Literary Fellow (2015), and recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry and Activism. A native of Buffalo, Nowak is the founding director of the Worker Writers School, currently in its eight year of collaboration with PEN America, and a professor at Manhattanville College.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8780\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-4.jpg 265w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-5.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-6.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-7.jpg 560w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-8.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1533-9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWS member Seth Goldman reading workshop poems outside NYTWA City Hall protests to cap Uber &amp; Left (which passed the next day)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8781\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-4.jpg 265w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-5.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-6.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-7.jpg 560w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-8.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0758-9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanka Workers Collective chapbook release party at Berl&rsquo;s Poetry shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worker Writers School workshop (with Mark in the center) Mark Nowak is the author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down&nbsp;(a New York Times Editor&rsquo;s Choice&rdquo;), Coal Mountain Elementary&nbsp;(which Howard Zinn called &ldquo;a stunning educational tool&rdquo;), and Social Poetics&nbsp;(forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He is a Guggenheim fellow (2010), a Lannan Literary Fellow (2015), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7010,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/7010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}