Social Poetics
By Mark Nowak
Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people’s history of the poetry workshop from the founding director of the Worker Writers School. Nowak illustrates not just what poetry means, but what it does to and for people outside traditional literary spaces, from taxi drivers to street vendors, and other workers of the world.
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/first-person-plural-on-mark-nowaks-social-poetics
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/to-create-ourselves-between-the-day-mark-nowak-interviewed/
https://inthesetimes.com/article/novak-social-poetics-poetry-for-workers-uber-ford
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