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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, May 12 - 7 PM  POETRY & STRUGGLE with Mark Nowak  AT THE AK PRESS 
 WAREHOUSE  Poet and labor activist Mark Nowak will read from his new book 
 of poetry Shut Up Shut Down and will discuss the relationship between his 
 writing and his labor organizing. Mark will be joined by several Bay Area 
 poet-activists (including David Buuck and Dennis Somera), who will also 
 read, and then participate in a roundtable discussion of poetry's role in 
 class, race, gender, and other struggles.  ON THE BOOK:  Shut Up Shut Down 
 is a riveting collection of poetic plays and photo-documentary poems that 
 exposes the human cost of corporate greed and gives voice to the growing 
 crisis faced in communities across America. Here's what the critics say...  
 Amiri Baraka: "We get a sharp eye, a literary and philosophical broadening 
 of what used to be labeled 'working class poetry'...deepened with a hard 
 but contemporary lyric and narrative....A much needed parade."  Adrienne 
 Rich: "Nowak is a highly gifted and conscious artist, carrying, like the 
 oldest bards, a group narrative which must be told if his listeners are to 
 understand who they are and on what their lives depend.--and this, in our 
 time, means all of us."  Dave Roediger: "Elegant and inventive...Songs and 
 statistics mix promiscuously in verses deeply informed by a knowledge of 
 labor history and an ear for working class speech. This is a work as 
 powerful in its hope as in its indictment of misery."  ON THE AUTHOR:  Mark 
 Nowak is author of the critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Revenants, 
 editor of XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, and co-editor of Visit Teepee Town: 
 Native Writings After the Detours. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and now 
 lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is active in the labor movement.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/12/65903.php
SUMMARY:POETRY & STRUGGLE with Mark Nowak
LOCATION:AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA  b/t MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. 
 BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980  For more info contact:  AK Press at 
 510.208.1700, josh@akpress.org or visit http://www.akpress.org  All events 
 at AK Press are wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/12/65903.php
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