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A Special Reading and "How I Write" Conversation How I Write
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Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York, a second-generation American of Italian descent. She began writing at the age of seven, and at the age of fourteen, decided to live her life as a poet. After attending Swarthmore College for two years, she moved to Greenwich Village, becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. She co-founded the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre and founded Eidolon Editions and the Poets Institute. After joining Timothy Leary's international community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968.
Di Prima has published more than forty books. Her poetry collections include 'This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards', 'Revolutionary Letters', the long poem 'Loba', 'Seminary Poems', and 'Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems'. She is also the author of the short story collection 'Dinners and Nightmares', the semi-autobiographical 'Memoirs of a Beatnik', and the memoir ' Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years'.
In this special event, Diane di Prima will read some of her poems and join Hilton Obenzinger in a "How I Write" conversation.
Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York, a second-generation American of Italian descent. She began writing at the age of seven, and at the age of fourteen, decided to live her life as a poet. After attending Swarthmore College for two years, she moved to Greenwich Village, becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. She co-founded the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre and founded Eidolon Editions and the Poets Institute. After joining Timothy Leary's international community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968.
Di Prima has published more than forty books. Her poetry collections include 'This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards', 'Revolutionary Letters', the long poem 'Loba', 'Seminary Poems', and 'Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems'. She is also the author of the short story collection 'Dinners and Nightmares', the semi-autobiographical 'Memoirs of a Beatnik', and the memoir ' Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years'.
In this special event, Diane di Prima will read some of her poems and join Hilton Obenzinger in a "How I Write" conversation.
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