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Di Prima, Diane

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1934-08-06 - 2020-10-25

Found in 3 Records:

Diane Di Prima collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 71
Overview

The journal is the author's archives, presumably from when she was located in New York City: collection of carbons and drafts of letters, notes, journals, editorial work, etc. Includes much personal material. The two reel to reel tapes are recordings of Di Prima's poetry, and the "absurd" play was written in the round during the fall or winter of 1959 in pencil in several hands (bookseller indicates the play was by "Diane Di Prima, Freddie Herko, and James Waring").

Dates: 1953-1961, 1964?

Revolutionary Writings of Diane Di Prima

 Collection
Call Number: MS D201
Overview

Bound notebook of Manuscript draft verse and other notes. Apparently kept up erratically circa 1968, probably while Diane Di Prima lived in San Francisco. Some loose accompanying material. Volume begins at either end. This description starts with the "Rev notes #4" end; each "page" in the description is a section within the volume.

Dates: approximately 1968; 1969, 1994

River City Reunion audiovisual recordings

 Collection
Call Number: SC AV 56
Overview

The River City Reunion was a large-scale cultural event held in Lawrence, Kansas in September 1987 that celebrated the town's contributions to the arts in the Midwest and a gathering of cross-generational counter-culture writers, musicians, and performers. This collection predominately contains audiovisual materials covering the event and a number of release forms associated with the audiovisual material.

Dates: 1987, 1993, and February 1995

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Subject
American poetry -- 20th century 2
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Manuscripts 1
Beats (Persons) 1