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Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86

| October 29, 2020 12:06 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Diane di Prima, a poet, activist and teacher who was one of the last surviving members of the Beats and one of the few women writers in the Beat movement, has died at age 86.

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