{"id":102527,"date":"2016-09-12T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=102527"},"modified":"2016-09-12T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:30:54","slug":"diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-102528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg\" alt=\"di-prima-hero-image-1300\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-full-composition-1300-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-102529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-full-composition-1300-1.jpg\" alt=\"di-prima-full-composition-1300-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"2510\" \/><\/a><br \/><em>Nathan Gelgud has illustrated for<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>, Nike, Random House,\u00a0<\/em><em>NYRB Classics, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ford Foundation, and <\/em>The Believer<em>. He is one of the\u00a0<\/em>Daily<em>\u2019s correspondents.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22700],"tags":[276,1237,142,24452,35,131,24219,13259,1465,1067,228,24217,23964,8401,24226,24221,3539,1447,165,24218,24454,2426,3863,24451,93,2428,24453,24228,24225,5873],"class_list":["post-102527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-correspondents","tag-1960s","tag-1237","tag-america","tag-anarchists","tag-art","tag-comics","tag-democrat","tag-diane-di-prima","tag-drawing","tag-graphic-novel","tag-illustration","tag-leftist","tag-movement","tag-nathan-gelgud","tag-pacifist","tag-peacemaking","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-political","tag-political-theater","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-revolutionary-letter-4","tag-san-francisco","tag-sixties","tag-the-diggers","tag-underground","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-vietnam-war"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Diane di Prima Went to San Francisco<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the late sixties, a renowned New York Beat poet moved to San Francisco to be with an anarchist theater group.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco by Nathan Gelgud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"September 12, 2016 \u2013 \u00a0Nathan Gelgud has illustrated for\u00a0The Paris Review, Nike, Random House,\u00a0NYRB Classics, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ford Foundation, and The Believer. He\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-12T15:17:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-09-12T15:30:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Gelgud\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Gelgud\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Gelgud\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/35d426fadbd51b8f7f62695a5935e9e3\"},\"headline\":\"Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-12T15:17:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-12T15:30:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/\"},\"wordCount\":37,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1960s\",\"1968\",\"America\",\"anarchists\",\"art\",\"comics\",\"Democrat\",\"Diane di Prima\",\"drawing\",\"graphic novel\",\"illustration\",\"leftist\",\"movement\",\"Nathan Gelgud\",\"pacifist\",\"peacemaking\",\"poem\",\"poet\",\"poetry\",\"political\",\"political theater\",\"politics\",\"protests\",\"Revolutionary Letter #4\",\"San Francisco\",\"sixties\",\"the Diggers\",\"underground\",\"United States of America\",\"Vietnam War\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Our Correspondents\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/\",\"name\":\"Why Diane di Prima Went to San Francisco\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-12T15:17:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-12T15:30:54+00:00\",\"description\":\"In the late sixties, a renowned New York Beat poet moved to San Francisco to be with an anarchist theater group.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/35d426fadbd51b8f7f62695a5935e9e3\",\"name\":\"Nathan Gelgud\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c03cf1480dad3889608b7a7439c3a6673f1ae561b4596ac15e8105246606b5c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c03cf1480dad3889608b7a7439c3a6673f1ae561b4596ac15e8105246606b5c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nathan Gelgud\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/ngelgud\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Why Diane di Prima Went to San Francisco","description":"In the late sixties, a renowned New York Beat poet moved to San Francisco to be with an anarchist theater group.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco by Nathan Gelgud","og_description":"September 12, 2016 \u2013 \u00a0Nathan Gelgud has illustrated for\u00a0The Paris Review, Nike, Random House,\u00a0NYRB Classics, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ford Foundation, and The Believer. He","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2016-09-12T15:17:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-09-12T15:30:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Nathan Gelgud","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nathan Gelgud"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/"},"author":{"name":"Nathan Gelgud","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/35d426fadbd51b8f7f62695a5935e9e3"},"headline":"Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco","datePublished":"2016-09-12T15:17:19+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-12T15:30:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/"},"wordCount":37,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg","keywords":["1960s","1968","America","anarchists","art","comics","Democrat","Diane di Prima","drawing","graphic novel","illustration","leftist","movement","Nathan Gelgud","pacifist","peacemaking","poem","poet","poetry","political","political theater","politics","protests","Revolutionary Letter #4","San Francisco","sixties","the Diggers","underground","United States of America","Vietnam War"],"articleSection":["Our Correspondents"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/","name":"Why Diane di Prima Went to San Francisco","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg","datePublished":"2016-09-12T15:17:19+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-12T15:30:54+00:00","description":"In the late sixties, a renowned New York Beat poet moved to San Francisco to be with an anarchist theater group.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/di-prima-hero-image-1300.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/diane-di-prima-digs-san-francisco\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/35d426fadbd51b8f7f62695a5935e9e3","name":"Nathan Gelgud","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c03cf1480dad3889608b7a7439c3a6673f1ae561b4596ac15e8105246606b5c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c03cf1480dad3889608b7a7439c3a6673f1ae561b4596ac15e8105246606b5c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nathan Gelgud"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/ngelgud\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102534,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102527\/revisions\/102534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}