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Lawrence Ferlinghetti in San Francisco, August 2012, Interview Magazine

This Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem crossed my transom yesterday morning. I cannot think of a more fitting encapsulation of where we are, here in our post Rule of Law era. "PITY…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure (floor) San Francisco (1957) Photo by Nat Farbman

Recently my grad program met in Philadelphia to critique their latest assignment. The prompt was A Coney Island of the Mind but did not have to be based on the 1958 Lawrence Ferlinghetti poetry book of the same name. One of the unexpected outcomes, thanks to one of the students, was the discovery that Ferlinghetti himself is a visual artist. How did I not know that? Alongside his writings, his 1957 recording Poetry Readings in the Cellar, featuring both Ferlinghetti and Kenne

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights bookstore in North Beach...you can still imagine Kerouac and Ginsburg sitting there.

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in my opinion Here’s a poem I’ve been meaning to write about. As far as I’m concerned, it’s one of the gems, one of the masterpieces of the latter 20th century. There’…

Beginning of "The World is a Beautiful Place" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti