A selective bibliography of open access articles, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Foley, Jack. A review of di Prima's autobiography, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (Viking, 2001). Reviewed in The Alsopreview, 8/24/01
Kimmelman, Burt. "From Black Mountain College to St. Mark's Church: The Cityscape Poetics of Blackburn, di Prima, and Oppenheimer." Kimmelman contends that the poetry of Diane DiPrima and others (in addition to the New York School) were important in the history of the St. Mark's Poetry Project. Rain Taxi, Spring 2002
Love, Jennifer. "No Girls Allowed: Women Poets and the Beat Generation," Women Writers [ejournal] 6/01/01
Quinn, Roseanne Giannini. "The willingness to speak": Diane di Prima and Italian American feminist body politics. In MELUS, Fall, 2003
Some details of the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955
Professor Larry Smith's timeline for the Beats places Beat events in the context of cultural history
A short biography of Diane di Prima from the Univ. of Louisville Library, along with a description on the di Prima papers owned by the library
A description of the Diane di Prima papers at the Univ. of Delaware library
The history of Circle magazine, an experimental San Francisco publication started in 1944
A site from the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics contains audio files of lectures given at Naropa by Beat writers. The Naropa Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 3500 recordings made at Naropa since 1974
Hayward, Michael. The publishing history of Beat writers, MA thesis (1991)
Details on the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955
Professor Larry Smith's timeline for the Beats which puts Beat events in the context of cultural history
Book Collecting: Beat Literature, article by a book collector, Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, by Steve Clay & Rodney Phillips. Based on the acclaimed 1998 exhibition at The New York Public Library documenting experimental literary publishing in this period. Courtesy of Granary Books (now blocked)
"A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980." Underground Publications Document Poetry's 'Mimeo Revolution' in Exhibition at The NY Public Library, featuring the handmade, experimental publications of work by writers and artists of the period. Press release about a 1998 exhibition at the NYPL (removed)
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