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Creative writing workshops w/ worker centers & trade unions. Collaborators: @DWU_NYC, @NYTWA, #CoronavirusHaiku 🌹

Joined May 2015
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Page proofs in for my new essay. Forthcoming in The Political Uses of Literature (@BloomsburyBooks ). Giving a free talk from it TOMORROW at @flowchartfdn in Hudson, NY. Link to attend below. #Poetry #Attica
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Register to attend (free) here: eventbrite.com/e/the-ingenio…

The Ingenious Mode: A Gathering — Day I

Day one of The Flow Chart Foundation's 2023 GATHERING: The Ingenious Mode—Expanding the Experimental Impulse of Poetry

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“Abecedarian poems allow me to dig at the very roots of the English language. It’s why I love books [. . .] that allow me to more deeply discover and use the materialist history of the English language in my writing.” —Mark Nowak #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/again-0

From “. . . Again”

We walked toward the zenith not expecting a new rising sun,

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21 Jun 2023
The American alphabet ends like every American factory ends. Zombies wandering around on Zoom. The new zoology. —Mark Nowak #PoemADay poets.org/poem/again-0

From “. . . Again”

We walked toward the zenith not expecting a new rising sun,

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Nice when your book becomes a class title at @MIT & kudos to @SirJoshBennett for what looks to be an amazing class. @Coffee_House_ #SocialPoetics
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25 May 2023
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@MIT_SHASS goes Inside the Classroom with Prof Joshua Bennett in "Finding the Heat | Reading Poetry: Social Poetics." "...a new #MIT Literature class that explores the relationship between #poetry and the social lives of everyday people." Read more here: bit.ly/426LDNt
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Had no idea it was #NationalGothDay You can read my essay on 1980s goth-industrial music in rust belt #Buffalo here: read.dukeupress.edu/books/bo…

Goth: Undead Subculture

Since it first emerged from Britain’s punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself ins

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Ready for event to begin. In-flight pigeon cameo, too! @PENworldvoices @PENamerica
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JOIN US! Today at 1:00pm, Washington Square Park. @PENamerica @PENworldvoices
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5 May 2023
#OtD 5 May 1818, Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. Living until the age of 64, Marx was a journalist, revolutionary socialist, philosopher and economist, and one of the most influential figures in world history. Works by our about him available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com…
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Thanks @worldlittoday for the new review! #Attica #PrisonPoetry #Abolition #NewYork worldliteraturetoday.org/202…

When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal

Duke University Press. 2022. 142 pages.

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1 May 2023
“These poems are at once traces and interpretations of these events, ambiguously; as both a part of this history and a belated representation of it, this writing layers time and refracts its violence.” David Sherman reads "When the Smoke Cleared." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…

Lyric Forms for Carceral Justice: On Attica Prison and Celes Tisdale’s “When the Smoke Cleared” |...

David Sherman reviews “When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal,” edited by Celes Tisdale.

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ABOUT LAST NIGHT. I’ve got more than 300 photos and video clips to go through before posting. Here’s just one to give a sense of this absolutely amazing May Day night with Worker Writers School poets & poems on the Brooklyn Bridge. Kudos to all who made it happen!! @DiaArtFndn
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TONIGHT!! 8pm. JOIN US! #May1st #MayDay2023 #NYC #BrooklynBridge #MayDay
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1 May 2023
TONIGHT : MAY DAY : 8PM BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK We will be projecting poems on the #BrooklynBridge with @DiaArtFndn @illuminator99 #Brooklyn #NYC #MayDay2023 #PublicArt #tonight diaart.org/program/calendar/…
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TONIGHT : MAY DAY : 8PM BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK We will be projecting poems on the #BrooklynBridge with @DiaArtFndn @illuminator99 #Brooklyn #NYC #MayDay2023 #PublicArt #tonight diaart.org/program/calendar/…
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Tomorrow at 8pm. Join us! @DiaArtFndn #PublicArt #MayDay #NYC #BrooklynBridge #Poetry
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MAY DAY : INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY BROOKLYN BRIDGE POEM PROJECTIONS : 8PM diaart.org/program/calendar/… #Brooklyn #BrooklynBridge #NYC #MayDay2023 #PublicArt #Poetry
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Celebrate May Day/International Workers Day with us as we project Worker Writers School poems on the Brooklyn Bridge!!! 8pm. Join us! diaart.org/program/calendar/… #MayDay #MayDay2023 #Brooklyn #BrooklynBridge #PublicArt #NYC #Poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
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MAY DAY : INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY BROOKLYN BRIDGE POEM PROJECTIONS : 8PM diaart.org/program/calendar/… #Brooklyn #BrooklynBridge #NYC #MayDay2023 #PublicArt #Poetry
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We will be projecting poems by Worker Writers School poets on the stanchions of the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday (May Day/International Workers Day), 8pm. Projections by the Illuminator who did Occupy Wall Street 99% projections. You should come!!! Brooklyn Bridge Park. @DiaArtFndn
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