The Blood-Jet Writing Hour With Guest Diane Wakowski

Join Rachelle Cruz as she talks to Diane Wakoski Diane Wakoski Biography Diane Wakoski (born 1937) is an American poet who is associated with the "deep image" poets and the Beats. Wakoski was born in Whittier, California and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she participated in Thom Gunn's poetry workshops. Her early work was part of the "deep image" movement that also included Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Kelly, among others. She also cites William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg as influences and her later work is more personal and conversational in the Williams mode.