Diane di Prima Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Dress Size, Contact Details, Spouse(Husband), Children, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Diane di Prima
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Monday
NEXT BIRTHDAY ON
Wednesday
BIRTHPLACE
Brooklyn, New York, United States
AGE
90 Years 5 Months 16 Days
NATIONALITY
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
LEO
ALSO NOTED FOR
Author, Artist
Physical Stats
WAIST
N/A
Hip
N/A
DRESS SIZE
N/A
HEIGHT
N/A
WEIGHT
N/A
Diane di Prima Marriage, Affairs and Children
AFFAIR
Amiri Baraka
Child(ren) of Diane di Prima and Amiri Baraka
Dominque DiPrima (June, 1962) (Daughter)
SPOUSE
Child(ren) of Diane di Prima and NA
Jeanne Di Prima (Daughter)
Fame & Address
DEBUT
This Kind of Bird Flies Backward (Poem 1958)
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Poem 1969), The Book of Hours (1970)
Education, Net Worth & More
COLLEGE
Swarthmore College
More Information
Career of Diane di Prima
The first piece of the author was "La Muerte de un Instalador (Death of an Installation Artist). She also wrote for New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. She also takes workshops about how to combine paintings or photographs with the printed word.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Diane di Prima
- Does Diane di Prima takes alcohol? NA.
- Is Diane di Prima in the habit of Smoking? NA.
- Apart from being a poet, Di Prima is also known for her other works like playwright, memoirist, and prose writer.
- The poetess has also contributed to society with her activism relating to social justice and fat acceptance.
- She was writing when she was a child and dropped her college to follow her passion. She is working with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen at the age of 19.
- Very few of us know that Di Prima also served as an editor of the newspaper The Floating Bear and co-founded the New York Poets Theatre.
- The government of the United States imposed charges of obscenity on her various times because of her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. Also, she was arrested by the FBI for her two poems which were published in The Floating Bear.
- The poetess is against the war and also signed a vow of tax resistance against the Vietnam War.
- She also experimented as a photographer and collage artist and worked with watercolor painting for over ten years.
- Not only in writing, but the lady has also named herself as a gamer and is regular to attend competitive Worms Armageddon tournaments.
- Di Prima had also made a documentary "The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima" in association with filmmaker Melanie La Rosa.
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