by Brian Dunlap

Los Angeles poet Matt Sedillo has won the 2017 Joe Hill Poetry Award.

As stated on the Labor Heritage website the ” Joe Hill Award honors leaders and artists who have contributed to the successful integration of arts and culture in the labor movement, given every year at the Great Labor Arts Exchange is awarded to persons based on their dedication, participation, and promotion of labor, labor arts, culture, organizing, and/or history.”

The Labor Heritage Foundation has presented this annual lifetime achievement award for work in the field of labor culture since 1989.

Past L.A. winners are Mark Lipman (2015).