A report on Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima, photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2004

American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement.

- Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima, photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2004

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Beat Generation

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Literary 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.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden

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

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American poet and writer.

American poet and writer.

First edition cover of Ginsberg's landmark poetry collection, Howl and Other Poems(1956)
Ginsberg with his partner, poet Peter Orlovsky. Photo taken in 1978
Portrait with Bob Dylan, taken in 1975
Allen Ginsberg greeting A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada at San Francisco International Airport. January 17, 1967
The Mantra-Rock Dance promotional poster featuring Allen Ginsberg along with leading rock bands.
Allen Ginsberg, 1979
Protesting at the 1972 Republican National Convention
Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John C. Lilly in 1991

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.

Baraka in 2013

Amiri Baraka

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American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.

American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.

Baraka in 2013
Baraka addressing the Malcolm X Festival from the Black Dot Stage in San Antonio Park, Oakland, California, while performing with Marcel Diallo and his Electric Church Band

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 reading at the "House Divided" poetry reading in Cooper Union's Great Hall

Hettie Jones

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American poet.

American poet.

Hettie Jones reading at the "House Divided" poetry reading in Cooper Union's Great Hall

While still married to Hettie, he fathered a daughter, Dominique di Prima, with poet Diane DiPrima.

Naropa's main Arapahoe Campus, as seen from Arapahoe Avenue.

Naropa University

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Private university in Boulder, Colorado.

Private university in Boulder, Colorado.

Naropa's main Arapahoe Campus, as seen from Arapahoe Avenue.
The Administration Building
Allen Ginsberg Library

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

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American 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

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Influential 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 from Park Ave (2019)

Hunter College High School

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Secondary 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.

Hunter College High School from Park Ave (2019)
Hunter College High School from Park Ave (2019)

Diane di Prima (class of 1951) – poet

Gregory Corso

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American poet and a key member of the Beat movement.

American poet and a key member of the Beat movement.

Corso's grave, in Rome (Italy)

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, 2010

City Lights Bookstore

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Independent 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.

City Lights Bookstore, 2010
City Lights Bookstore - outside, 2013
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights in 2007
City Lights bookstore in July 2003.
The poetry room.
Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books

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.