As Filreis explains at the start of his PoemTalk blog post on the episode, Nowak "is one of the few contemporary artists who has organiziationally sought a way to recontextualize working-class consciousness and activism within the American labor movement into the poetics and media art of the twenty-first century." He continues, "Mark's new labor poetics has led him to found Worker Writers, an institute that organizes and facilitates poetry workshops with global trade unions, workers' centers, and other progressive labor organizations," and three members of this worthy project — Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett, and Davidson Garrett — are the authors of the half-dozen tankas under discussion here.
