Poetry’s Public Commitments April 13, 2012: On Thursday night, I gave a lecture at John Carroll Unviversity in Cleveland on "Globalization, Social Action, and Committed Pedagogy"—thanks to an invitation from my pal Phil Metres. It's a triangle of concepts that I've been trying to bring into conversation for some time. That is (for me), how could developments in labor history and labor [...] by Mark Nowak

New Labor Journalism and the Poets April 15, 2011: Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to spend a few days in conversations with several prominent younger labor journalists at events at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor in DC and at the school where I teach in Maryland. The journalists included Kari Lydersen, a regular columnist for the In Theses Times labor blog [...] by Mark Nowak