Diane di Prima, the Beat Generation writer best known for reciting three poems at The Band’s 1976 farewell concert, is dead at 86. The poet died Sunday at a San Francisco hospital after suffering a ...

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 ...

On the Road by Jack Kerouac, often considered one of the most important works of literature to come out of the Beat Generation, begins: “I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.” It is ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik was a highly sexualized fictional account of the poet's time with the Beats. One night in the 1950s Diane di Prima was at a party at Allen Ginsberg's place in New York ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — Poet, activist and teacher Diane di Prima, one of the last surviving members of the Beats and one of the few women writers in the Beat movement, died this week at age 86.

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