When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Ugly Duckling Presse and self-defined “poet of research

and self-defined “poet of research

the slow ticking of grief

It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems

Sufi fables and capitalist parables

Through different sectional lenses

When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Ugly Duckling Presse and self-defined “poet of researchCeles Tisdale Following the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, Celes Tisdalea poet and then professor at Buffalo State Collegebegan leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica. Tisdales 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 Tisdales students were published as Betcha Aint: Poems from