Join the iconic poet and activist Diane di Prima for a rare New York City appearance. Graduate Center Professor Ammiel Alcalay will engage her in a conversation about her work and life after her reading. Over the span of her remarkable career, di Prima has published 43 books of poetry and prose and, as per Allen Ginsberg, "broke barriers of race-class identity and delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity." She is presently the Poet Laureate of San Francisco.
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Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist. His work often examines how poetry and politics affect the way we see ourselves and the way Americans think about the Middle East.
Diane di Prima
Over the span of her remarkable career, Diane di Prima has published 43 books of poetry and prose and, as per Allen Ginsberg, "broke barriers of race-class identity and delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity." She is presently the Poet Laureate of San Francisco.
Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and rhythm. It may be distinguished from prose by its compression, frequent use of conventions of metre and rhyme, use of the line as a formal unit, heightened vocabulary, and freedom of syntax. Its emotional content is expressed through a variety of techniques, from direct description to symbolism, including the use of metaphor and simile. See alsoprose poem; prosody.