DIANE DI PRIMA (1934-2020); and AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)
Poetry reading broadside, signed by both. Illustrated broadside titled "Diane diPrima & Audre Lorde read at Intersection, 756 Union," 355x279 mm; 14x11 inches; minimal wear; signed by both authors in ink. [San Francisco, CA], 20 April [1971]The poet Diane di Prima rose to prominent in the New York beat scene in the late 1950s, and then came to San Francisco in the late 1960s. She became the city's poet laureate in 2009. Audre Lorde was a New Yorker of Caribbean ancestry; she identified as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." She was di Prima's friend and classmate at New York's Hunter High School; di Prima edited her first volume of poems in 1968. In 1971 she went west to do this reading with her old classmate. We trace only one other example of this broadside, at the University of Delaware.