Excerpt from Mark Nowak's ...AGAIN, a collection of poems documenting America's political landscape, on display at DIA Chelsea.
…AGAIN
…AGAIN
Mark Nowak
Mark Nowak
Mark Nowak’s . . . AGAIN is a harrowing documentation of MAGA America’s landscape. In his sobering voice, Nowak captures the depredations of capitalism, the desensitizing regularity of mass shootings, and the extremism that has fueled white nationalism. The author chronicles transformations as the seasons change around him, from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6 insurrection through Donald Trump’s reelection, attempting to make sense of a bitterly divided nation that voted for a polarizing figurehead . . . again.
…AGAIN premiered on April 11, 2026, at DIA Chelsea.
2020
Poetry, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Literary Arts
Book cover of Mark Nowak's ...AGAIN, a collection of poems documenting America's political landscape.
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About Mark Nowak
Canaan, NY & New York, NY
Mark Nowak is a writer and founding director of Work Writers School, which links the global working class to literary practice. He is author of three poetry collections: Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down, and Coal Mountain Elementary. Revenants was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Shut Up Shut Down became a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is also the writer of one prose work, Social Poetics, part autobiography, party literary criticism, part political theory. Nowak has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations as well as the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism from Split This Rock. As founding director of the Worker Writers School (WWS), Nowak has been designing and facilitating projects to link working class communities to literary practice and poetry workshops in North America, Central America, Europe, and Africa for the past two decades. Articles on the WWS have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times, New Yorker, Poetry Foundation (“Poem Talk” podcast), Laura Flanders Show, and elsewhere.
Mark Nowak is a writer and founding director of Work Writers School, which links the global working class to literary practice. He is author of three poetry collections: Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down, and Coal Mountain Elementary. Revenants was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Shut Up Shut Down became a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is also the writer of one prose work, Social Poetics, part autobiography, party literary criticism, part political theory. Nowak has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations as well as the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism from Split This Rock. As founding director of the Worker Writers School (WWS), Nowak has been designing and facilitating projects to link working class communities to literary practice and poetry workshops in North America, Central America, Europe, and Africa for the past two decades. Articles on the WWS have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times, New Yorker, Poetry Foundation (“Poem Talk” podcast), Laura Flanders Show, and elsewhere.