Poets Take On Guess Inc.: Poets Win

By tye042, 3 November, 2017
Author
Joseph Tabbi
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
URL
Poets Take On Guess Inc.: Poets Win
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
poet
labor
neruda
tarlen
unite
ponce
schwalberg
zaroulis
rabinowitz
hapke
barber
melville
byron
whitman
common thread
Abstract (in English)

Poets Take On Guess Inc.: Poets Win

On September 18, 1997, Guess Inc. filed a libel/slander suit against the literary reading I had organized in support of the garment workers’ union UNITE that was organizing this garment manufacturer. How did my literary reading wind up getting sued by this corporation?