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Working-class people have long used writing to reflect on and to critique the the struggles, strengths, and pleasures of working-class life. Some have written alone, even in secret, while others gathered in writing workshops offered through unions, libraries, community centers, and alternative schools. While working-class writing provides thoughtful, moving, often humorous insights on working-class life, […]

On Tuesday, February 8th at 7:00PM ET, join us for a virtual reading and talk featuring poet Mark Nowak. Hosted by Carolyn Forché. How to attend Register on Crowdcast to attend. About Mark Nowak Mark Nowak is the author of four poetry collections: Social Poetics (Coffee House Press, 2020), Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Revenants (2000). Also a […]

Gillian Oxford taught pupils with reading difficulties and wrote books for children who have dyslexia EstherOxford Wed 10 Mar 2021 10.51 EST Last modified on Fri 2 Apr 2021 13.57 EDT In mid-life my mother, Gillian Oxford, who has died of cancer aged 79, switched from being a stay-at-home mother to teaching children with reading difficulties. She spent the next 20 years working in north London comprehensive schools, building the confidence of many pupils. Gillian was born in Banstead, Surrey, to...