Poet laureate Diane di Prima gets her laurel Aug 14, 2009
At a studio in the old Sears building at Mission and Cesar Chavez on Sunday, friends gathered to celebrate the 75th birthday of Diane di Prima, the city's fifth designated poet laureate. 08. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
San Francisco International Poetry Festival Jul 25, 2009
Co-hosted by Jack Hirschman, current poet-in-residence for the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, as well as California poet laureate Carol Muske-Dukes and San Francisco poet laureate Diane di Prima, the festival features the work of artists from far-flung places like Sudan, Greece, Haiti, Israel, Bangladesh, Iran, Nicaragua and Wales. Hirschman had the idea for an international poetry festival in 2006, when Mayor Gavin Newsom named him San Francisco poet laureate. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene Jul 9, 2009
The hosts for the event will be San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus Jack Hirschman, California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes and San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, another city poet laureate, will receive a special honor at the event, whose honorary chairs are Robert Mailer Anderson and Nicola Miner. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Graphic works: Revelations of conflict Mar 30, 2009
It delivers the texture of a movement easy to underestimate in brief biographies of touchstones like poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, novelists William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac and lesser-known lights like poet d.a. levy (an underground Cleveland icon) and mythopoeic poetess Diane di Prima. Like others in this revisionist, unabashedly liberal Hill and Wang series, this fearless, substantial history entertains as it uncovers. (Boston Globe)
Bruce Anderson: Anarchist Bookfair Mar 14, 2009
This year speakers include poet Diane di Prima and author Judith Levine, who will speak on "Kids, Sex and the State." There will also be more than 60 vendors offering books, magazines, T-shirts, DVDs, buttons, bumper stickers and plenty of ideas. "It's peculiar to me that we are synonymous with chaos and Bernie Madoff isn't," said journalist and author Bruce Anderson, editor and publisher of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, who will speak at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
