The Lafayette writer and educator will discuss ‘My Last Resume: New and Collected Poems’ at A Great Good Place for Books.
The most honest and best reason given that a prolific writer who first began penning poetry at age 10 abruptly stopped for 20 years during his young adult life is also the simplest: it just happened that way.
Di Prisco and his associates also lead free Simpson Writing Workshops for teenage writers at places such as Contra Costa County Juvenile Hall and Girls Inc. Alameda County. The workshops are taught by graduate student Simpson Fellows and creative writing teachers from UC Berkeley’s English Department and St. Mary’s College in Moraga. The Simpson project extends to Jack Hazard Fellowships, awards granted during summer months to creative writers who teach high school.
Poets who are explainers and tell you about feelings and the sky, butterflies or political movements aren’t his shtick. He said he wrote the first poem above during a psychoanalytic phase when he was reading a lot of Freud. Di Prisco concluded that the poem, about the death of a friend who comes back to life in a way that’s upsetting and affirming, “was the hardest to write because it’s more autobiographical than other poems.”
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