# Event Details - **Event Name**: Reading & Convo: Mark Nowak "...AGAIN" (w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen) - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: A night with poets Mark Nowak and Diana Khoi NguyenAbout this EventWe are honored to welcome celebrated poet Mark Nowak to White Whale for his newest collection of poetry, ...AGAIN . He will be joined by National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen.ABOUT THE BOOK:Award-winning poet Mark Nowak returns with a harrowing documentation of the expansive landscape of MAGAmerica.Told through five abecedarian prose sections, . . . AGAIN is a photo-text commentary on MAGAism in America. In his sobering voice, Nowak captures the depredations of capitalism, the desensitizing regularity of mass shootings, and the extremism that has fueled white nationalism. From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6 insurrection through Donald Trump’s re-election, Nowak chronicles the transformations as the seasons change around him, attempting to make sense of a bitterly divided nation that elected a polarizing figurehead . . . again.MARK NOWAK'S books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and …AGAIN, all from Coffee House Press. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Creative Capital foundations. Nowak’s work on poetry by incarcerated writers of the 1970s includes his introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Pr*son Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022) and his essay “Workshops of Abolition: Attica Print Culture and Small Press Poetry,” published in The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2024). He is founding director of the Worker Writers School DIANA KHOI NGUYEN is a poet and multimedia artist who was born and raised in California. Her debut poetry collection Ghost Of was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open Contest and was a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It received the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Colorado Book Award. A Kundiman fellow and member of the Vietnamese diasporic artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s), Nguyen’s other honors include awards from the 92Y “Discovery” Poetry Contest, Key West Literary Seminars, and Academy of American Poets. She teaches creative writing at Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/e834b360-21d3-11f1-a01a-adaecb19c40b-rimg-w1200-h628-dcc38631-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/reading-and-convo-mark-nowak-again-w-diana-khoi-nguyen/100001985315532200 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, contests - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Pittsburgh - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: White Whale Bookstore - **lat**: 40.461023 - **long**: -79.9482606 - **full address**: White Whale Bookstore, 4754 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Reading & Convo: Mark Nowak "...AGAIN" (w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen) - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/6281c2b1aeae7995e10ea32072e9a8d5ba3af52da72a171b5c27b1df334ebd57-rimg-w1200-h628-dcc38631-gmir.jpg?v=1773732966 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Reading & Convo: Mark Nowak "...AGAIN" (w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen) being held? - **A:** Reading & Convo: Mark Nowak "...AGAIN" (w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen) takes place on Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at White Whale Bookstore, 4754 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Reading & Convo: Mark Nowak "...AGAIN" (w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen)? - **A:** Reading & Convo: Mark Nowak "...AGAIN" (w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen) is organized by White Whale Bookstore. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Reading & Convo: Mark Nowak "...AGAIN" (w/ Diana Khoi Nguyen)", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/6281c2b1aeae7995e10ea32072e9a8d5ba3af52da72a171b5c27b1df334ebd57-rimg-w1200-h628-dcc38631-gmir.jpg?v=1773732966", "startDate": "2026-04-14T19:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-04-14T20:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/reading-and-convo-mark-nowak-again-w-diana-khoi-nguyen/100001985315532200", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "White Whale Bookstore", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "4754 Liberty Avenue", "postalCode": "15224", "addressLocality": "Pittsburgh", "addressRegion": "PA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.461023", "longitude": "-79.9482606" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "A night with poets Mark Nowak and Diana Khoi Nguyen", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-17", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-14T20:00:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-17", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/reading-and-convo-mark-nowak-again-w-diana-khoi-nguyen/100001985315532200" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-17", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-17", "url": "https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/reading-and-convo-mark-nowak-again-w-diana-khoi-nguyen/100001985315532200", "price": 0, "name": "Optional donation" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-17", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-17", "url": "https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/reading-and-convo-mark-nowak-again-w-diana-khoi-nguyen/100001985315532200", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission (free)" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-17", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-17", "url": "https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/reading-and-convo-mark-nowak-again-w-diana-khoi-nguyen/100001985315532200", "price": 0, "name": "LIVESTREAM ONLY" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "White Whale Bookstore", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/white-whale-bookstore/23305231", "description": "Please check out our main website for all of our events(local partnerships, in-person store events, virtual events, virtual workshops, and more)!White Whale Bookstoreis a family-owned general interest indie located in Pittsburgh, PA. 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