| Description | Join the University of Washington Bothell Labor Studies Colloquium for a talk with Mark Nowak for "A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop".
Register to Attend "A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop".
This talk, organized by Dr. Ching-In Chen, is taking place on Zoom in conjunction with BISIA 410: Labor Stories During Pandemic Times. The talk is free and open to the public, with pre-registration. Zoom links will be e-mailed the day of the talk.
Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down (a New York Times “Editor’s Choice”), Coal Mountain Elementary (which Howard Zinn called “a stunning educational tool"), and Social Poetics, all from Coffee House Press. He is currently editing a revised and expanded edition of writings from the Attica poetry workshops of Celes Tisdale (1972-1974). A native of Buffalo, Nowak is the founding director of the Worker Writers School and a professor of English at Manhattanville College.
This event is part of Labor in Times of Crises, a year of online talks investigating and exploring the exacerbated, economic fault lines for working class lives in times of crisis. Each meeting will feature a talk by a visiting scholar and/or artist and discussion, including topics such as the carceral and unresponsive state, alternate and solidarity economies and community storytelling, and is organized by UWB Labor Colloquium faculty members Dr. Dan Berger, Dr. S. Charusheela, Dr. Joseph Ferrare and Dr. Kari Lerum, coordinated by Dr. Ching-In Chen with assistance from Graduate Assistant Simon Wolf.
For event questions and for UWB Labor Studies Colloquium questions, contact Dr. Ching-In Chen at chingin@uw.edu.
The organizer of this event is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu. If you have any access needs which you want the organizers to know about, please let us know. For further questions about disability accommodation, contact chingin@uw.edu.
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from The Convergence Zone is a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. It brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment. This series brings to the (virtual) Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media. It discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field. |
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