When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Ugly Duckling Presse Cracked children’s rhymes lead onto

Cracked children’s rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirren’s first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick

and their historical role as storytellers of Black life in a prison monitored exclusively by white guards and administrators

"—Anselm Berrigan

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When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Ugly Duckling Presse Cracked children’s rhymes lead ontoCeles 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