When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Mark Nowak

When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal Mark NowakCeles 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

” A series of 50 “galactic cantos”—in homage to both Dante and Pound—de Campos likewise follows James Joyce’s cue in conceiving of galáxias as a “defense and illustration” of the Portuguese language and its poetic possibilities

their themes of intimacy across distance made various

Clouds was published by Columbia University Press

first published in 1994 and long out of print

Originally published in 1975

led him to a job working with exotic underwater animals

ancestral trauma

and published by Equipage

Philip Huff

In the ever-expansive margins of dominant literary culture

ongoing since 2003

beyond the literal world into dream-habitats conjured through language’s occult structures