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Diane di Prima

The Beat poet and activist Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn on August 6, 1934, the daughter of first-generation Italian immigrant parents. Though her parents were conservative Catholics, her grandfather,

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Featured Poem

Song For Baby-O, Unborn

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October 25

Diane di Prima died, 2020

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Whom did Edgar Allan Poe call "One of the least intolerable of the school of Boston transcendentalists"?

Answer

Christopher Pearse Cranch

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