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Diane Wakoski was born on 3 August, 1937 in Whittier, California, U.S., is an American poet (born 1937). Discover Diane Wakoski's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Occupation Poet, essayist
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 3 August, 1937
Birthday 3 August
Birthplace Whittier, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1937

Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet.

1960

Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.

She studied at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

During her time at this university she participated in Thom Gunn's poetry workshops.

It was there that she first read many of the modernist poets who would influence her writing style.

Her early writings were considered part of the deep image movement that also included the works of Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, and Clayton Eshleman, among others.

She also cites William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski as influences.

Her poetry career began in New York City, where she moved with La Monte Young in 1960.

1973

She remained a resident of New York City until 1973.

Her later work is more personal and conversational in the Williams mode.

Wakoski is married to the photographer Robert Turney, and is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Wakoski's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.

Her work has been published in more than twenty collections and many slim volumes of poetry.

1980

She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism.

Wakoski was born in Whittier, California.

1989

Her selected poems, Emerald Ice, won the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 1989.

She is best known for a series of poems collectively known as The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems.

Many of her books have been published in fine editions by Black Sparrow Press.

In 2022, Black Sparrow Press published an expanded edition of The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems titled Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch: The Complete Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. The new hardcover edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth A.I. Powell, additional poems, and an afterword by Wakoski.