Celes Tisdale, "When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal"
English | ISBN: 1478018941 | 2022 | 152 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Following the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, Celes Tisdale-a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College-began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica. Tisdale's workshop created a space of radical Black creativity and solidarity, in which poets who lived through the uprising were able to turn their experiences into poetry. The poems written by Tisdale's students were published as Betcha Ain't: Poems from Attica