Di Prima, Diane

  • Diane di Prima reads

    Radio Free People presents poet Diane di Prima reads chapter of an upcoming prose book Blessed are the Meek, Baby, a monologue “Zip Code”, and four part poem “Canticle of St. Joan”. Produced by Radio Free People at a poetry reading in March 1969 at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery in New York City.…

  • Festival of Underground Poetry: Diane di Prima

    Beat poet Diane di Prima reads excerpts from her book “The Calculus of Variation” at the Festival of Underground Poetry at the UC Berkeley Art Museum on October 10, 1971. The festival was co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and the Berkeley Poets’ Commune. Recording starts in the middle of a sentence and seems…

  • Monuments (Episode 15 of 29)

    Eight monologues by Diane Di Prima, written at different times, and first assembled at the Cafe Cino. The monologues and performers are “Bacchanale”, Sierra Bandit; “Freddie’s monologue”, Lee Fitzgerald; “Butterfly sprite”, Edward Barton; “John’s words”, John Braden; “Zip code”, Diane Di Prima; “Hand grenade”, Alan Marlowe; “Did he go to the seaside”, John Herbert MacDonald;…

  • Art of poetry.

    Poets discuss the value and practicality of poets and poetry. Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Anne Waldman, Diane Di Prima, and John Giorno.

  • Murray Bookchin on the energy crisis / interviewed by Larry Bensky.

    Radical ecologist discusses the energy crisis and alternative energy systems. Includes readings from the poetry of Diane Di Prima.

  • Two poets read / Sotere Torregian and Diane Di Prima.

    Poets Sotère Torregian and Diane Di Prima read their poems at a benefit performance for Heirs Magazine at Project Artaud in San Francisco on July 23, 1971, sponsored by the Neighborhood Arts Program. Torregian reads “Plebiscite” (the recording cuts in while his reading was in progress). Di Prima reads “an inflammatory poem” written “in collaboration…