Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters, on the 1968 San Francisco origins (1974)- The Poetry Center

Full-program video (with downloadable audio) at Poetry Center Digital Archive: diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poe...
“I guess it was 1965, when I finally left New York….” Diane di Prima relates the story of her move to San Francisco, in 1968 after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and how, reading poems daily on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, she started to write her Revolutionary Letters. She reads “April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa,” on June 21, 1974, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, sharing the bill with poet and Poetry Center director Kathleen Fraser.
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[@volpe1970]

Thank you. From Rudi DiPrima. Memorial Tribute will be August 6, 2023 at the Castro Theater. Organized by her children.

[@abouvier3457]

I loved the originality of Diane di Prima's earlier works. I was captivated by them in my 20's. I love this poem about her grandfather. Probably because I grew up in an extended family, and knew what it was like to have a wonderful grandfather.

[@davidkokaska8130]

Yes - our forebears are important!!

[@fernandamorse1200]

Thank you for sharing