Mark Nowak | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Genre | poetry |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Mark Nowak is an American poet, as well as cultural critic, playwright and essayist, from Buffalo, New York. [1] Nowak is a professor in the English Department at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. [2] [3]
Charles Olson was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets. The latter includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, and some of the artists and poets associated with the Beat generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.
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Francesco Levato is a poet, a translator, and a new media artist. He received his MFA in Poetry from New England College and is currently working on his PhD in English Studies, Poetry, at Illinois State University. He is the founder and director of The Chicago School of Poetics, served as executive director of The Poetry Center of Chicago from 2007 to 2010, and currently serves as Cinépoetry Editor for Poetry International.
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 "Conversation: Poet Mark Nowak and Director April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary'", PBS, April 24, 2009 | |
| Mark Nowak and April Daras Discuss 'Coal Mountain Elementary', PBS Newshour, April 2, 2015 |
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