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.