Just 22 and working as a file clerk on Wall Street to support her poetry habit, Diane di Prima turned heads when she mailed in several of her works to City Lights, the legendary San Francisco ...

The opening page of Diane di Prima’s remarkable early memoir, Spring and Autumn Annals, begins with a single word: “fall.” It’s a tragic double-entendre. On October 27, 1964, Freddie Herko—the Warhol ...

In 1968, after a tumultuous move to San Francisco from the East Coast, the poet and radical Diane di Prima began writing her Revolutionary Letters. As part of the open-ended project, which di Prima ...

One night in the 1950s Diane di Prima was at a party at Allen Ginsberg's place in New York City. It was usual poet stuff — talking, reading, smoking, drinking — until 11:30 p.m. came around and di ...

A unique documentary bringing the work and life of poet Diane di Prima to the screen. An impressionistic documentary about legendary poet Diane di Prima, the most famous female poet of the Beat ...

How much of her stories were true, no one will ever know, especially now that she’s dead. Maybe it doesn’t matter what was true and what was invented and imagined. Maybe her many readers don’t need to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — Diane di Prima, a poet, activist and teacher who was one of the last surviving members of the Beats and one of the ...

Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her feminist ...

Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her feminist ...