La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave
510.849.2568
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Sunday Mar 28, 2010 (7–10pm)
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$10 suggested donation
“"Sweetheart / when you break thru / you'll find / a poet here / not quite what one would choose," writes SF Poet Laureate Diane di Prima. Her poetic treatise screams out for women's rights. In her biography "Memoir of a Beatnik" di Prima emerges as a liberated, intellectual female. She started writing when she was seven, and by the time she hit puberty she'd committed to poetry. The NY-native entered the Beat movement in its early hay-day, and in the 60s found her home in SF. Tonight, see di Prima read with 35 other Bay Area poets, as a Benefit for Doctors Without Borders who are doing relief work in Haiti and Chile.”
Michelle Broder Van Dyke, Flavorpill
La Peña says:
A collective poetry reading by more than 35 Bay Area poets as a benefit for the relief efforts in Haiti and Concepción, Chile; with San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima as guest poet.
