Video of Diane DiPrima Reading a Poem in the 70s

San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane DiPrima -- who is co-hosting the San Francisco International Poetry Festival that kicks off tonight with a party on Jack Kerouac Alley in North Beach -- provides us with our afternoon palate cleanser today. This is a bit of film taken of her reading at the Naropa Institute back in the late 70s/early80s, from a poem she wrote for her grandfather.

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I do believe this has already been posted here as I have fuzzy memories of making an inappropriate cro-mag remark about her poetess breasts.

It was. But it needed repeating. She is, after all, our poet laureate.

By rights that should the "Just a nickel and a smile lasts a long while" Guy

Our poet laureate has better boobies than yours.

Go now. Make your t-shirt.

; )

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