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Diane Burns Interview with Justina Mejias ()
In , Justina MejIas interviewed poet Diane Burns about her life, her families’ history and her artistic practice.
Diane burns poet biography projects
Poet Diane Burns was born in Lawrence, Kansas, to a Chemehuevi father and an Anishinabe mother. She grew up in Riverside, California, where her parents taught at a Native American boarding school.
When she was ten, her family moved to the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation in Wisconsin and later to Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at another boarding school.
Burns was educated at Barnard University.
In the s, she became a member of the Lower East Side poetry community, reading her work at the Bowery Poetry Club, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. Along with Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo, and Pedro Pietri, she was invited by the Sandinista government to visit Nicaragua for the Ruben Dario Poetry Festival.
In her direct, wry poems, Burns engages t