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Diane di Prima (1934–2020) was an American Beat poet, activist, and teacher who developed friendships with noteworthy creatives such as Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Jack Kerouac, and Audre Lorde, and she wrote about feminism, sexuality, and class. She taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and the New College of California. During her career, she was investigated by the FBI for subversiveness after writing poems in The Floating Bear.