A report on Diane di Prima
American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement.
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Beat Generation
6 linksLiterary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Beat Generation women who have been published include Edie Parker; Joyce Johnson; Carolyn Cassady; Hettie Jones; Joanne Kyger; Harriet Sohmers Zwerling; Diane DiPrima; and Ruth Weiss, who also made films.
Allen Ginsberg
6 linksAmerican poet and writer.
American poet and writer.
Some of these friends include: David Amram, Bob Kaufman; Diane di Prima; Jim Cohn; poets associated with the Black Mountain College such as Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov; poets associated with the New York School such as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch.
Amiri Baraka
4 linksAmerican writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.
American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.
In cooperation with Corinth, Totem published books by LeRoi Jones and Diane di Prima, Ron Loewinsohn, Michael McClure, Charles Olson, Paul Blackburn, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Ed Dorn, Joel Oppenheimer and Gilbert Sorrentino and an anthology of four young female poets, Carol Berge, Barbara Moraff, Rochelle Owens, and Diane Wakoski.
Hettie Jones
2 linksAmerican poet.
American poet.
While still married to Hettie, he fathered a daughter, Dominique di Prima, with poet Diane DiPrima.
Naropa University
2 linksPrivate university in Boulder, Colorado.
Private university in Boulder, Colorado.
Trungpa asked poets Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Diane di Prima, and the composer John Cage to found a poetics department at Naropa during the first summer session.
Anne Waldman
3 linksAmerican poet.
American poet.
Her archive of historical, literary, art, tape, and extensive correspondence materials (including many prominent literary correspondents, such as: William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Ken Kesey) resides at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
New York Poets Theatre
1 linksInfluential theatre company active in New York, New York in the 1960s.
Influential theatre company active in New York, New York in the 1960s.
It was founded in October 1961 by James Waring, LeRoi Jones, Alan Marlowe, Fred Herko and Diane di Prima.
Hunter College High School
0 linksSecondary school located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Diane di Prima (class of 1951) – poet
Gregory Corso
2 linksAmerican poet and a key member of the Beat movement.
American poet and a key member of the Beat movement.
Gorski criticizes the Beat movement for tokenism towards women writers and their work, with very few exceptions, including Anne Waldman, and post-beats like Diane DiPrima and herself.
City Lights Bookstore
2 linksIndependent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Apart from Ginsberg's seven collections, a number of the early Pocket Poets volumes brought out by Ferlinghetti have attained the status of classics, including True Minds by Marie Ponsot (1957), Here and Now by Denise Levertov (1958), Gasoline (1958) by Gregory Corso, Selected Poems by Robert Duncan (1959), Lunch Poems (1964) by Frank O'Hara, Selected Poems (1967) by Philip Lamantia, Poems to Fernando (1968) by Janine Pommy Vega, Golden Sardine (1969) by Bob Kaufman, and Revolutionary Letters (1971) by Diane di Prima.