Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Lawrence University granted her an honorary doctorate..
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She has been awarded the National Poetry Association\'s Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement and has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Committee on Poetry, the Lapis Foundation and the Institute for Aesthetic Development.
Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009.
One of her collections of poetry, The Poetry Deal , is also published by City Lights Publishers.
After joining Timothy Leary\'s intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968.
There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O\'Hara and Audre Lorde.
She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement.
Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York
