On Labor: Who Speaks for the Artist?

As the United States faces the largest unemployment crisis in modern history due to COVID-19, workers will need tremendous advocacy on their behalf to recover from this economic disaster. In this conversation, Christine Lewis, Mark Nowak, and Natalie Diaz offer their thoughts about considering creative workers within a broader “workers movement” and how artists can work beyond the institution in service of deeper organizing efforts.

A Conversation with Christine Lewis, poet, member of Domestic Workers United, and founding member of the Worker Writers School; Mark Nowak, poet, professor of English at Manhattanville College, and the founding director of the Worker Writers School; and Natalie Diaz, poet, professor at Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program, and the founder of Center for Imagination in the Borderlands.