Reading, Performance & Celebration

Diane di Prima Memorial Tribute

Wed, Oct 27, 2021

9:00 PM–11:00 PM

This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register below.

Watch the recording of this video here:


A tribute to Diane di Prima, marking one year since her passing in October 2020, with Hanif Abdurraqib, Garrett Caples, Cedar Sigo, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Wendy Trevino, and more guests to be announced.


Diane di Prima. Original back cover of Revolutionary Letters

And celebrating the publication of two new books from City Lights!

Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Editionand Spring and Autumn Annals.


Sponsored by the City Lights Foundation and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.

Read more about Diane’s new books and these events here “Two New Diane di Prima Books Capture the Brilliance of a San Francisco Treasure” from KQED

Diane di Prima at her swearing in as San Francisco Poet Laureate at the San Francisco Public Library. di Prima served in the role from 2009 to 2011. (© Steve Wilson 2010)


More guests to be announced.
For questions or accommodation requests for this event, please contact [email protected].

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