When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Vlerk humorvolle en denkende poëzie van

humorvolle en denkende poëzie van een dichter die de wereld in kijkt met evenveel scheppingsdrang als empathie

La cuidadora del fuego (2010)—and from a book of selected poems from 1968-1984

This clear-eyed

and new “characters” are incorporated from the news and from the poet’s life

When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Vlerk humorvolle en denkende poëzie vanCeles 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