Poet Biography

Diane di Prima

DIANE DI PRIMA lives and teaches in the Bay area. She is the author of 44 books of poetry and prose, and has been translated into over 20 languages. An expanded edition of her classic, Revolutionary Letters, was recently published by Last Gasp Press. Opening to the Poem, essays and exercises to access the creative process in everyone, will be published by Penguin in 2009. Diane has just been named Poet Laureate of San Francisco.