Abstract: "My poem" is both the achievements of poetry writing of Chinese contemporary workers and a comprehensive cultural practice. The process of the development from the "text" to the "phenomenon" demonstrates triple cultural contradictions: the misplacement of identity differences and survival experience, the reflective and critical industrial rationality that assimilated by market and capital at last, the paradox of enlightenment and pseudo enlightenment. These contradictions are both the internal contradictions of the creation of workers poetry and the epitomes of the internal contradictions of economy, society and culture in the process of modernization in contemporary China. The analysis of internal contradictions of poetry writing of contemporary workers provides us with new possibilities to understand contemporary workers poetry deeply, think further about the new poetry writing and reconsider the relationship of poetry and reality.

Key words: my poem, workers poetry, text, phenomenon, cultural contradictions