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Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti

On February 22, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101. In the 1950s, Ferlinghetti’s San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, was the center of the Beat Movement. Ferlinghetti published many of the writers whose goal was to “write in an authentic, unfettered style.” Ferlinghetti was arrested for obscenity for publishing Howl by Allen Ginsburg in 1956, but Judge Clayton Horn decided that the poem was of “redeeming social importance”.

Join us in remembering Ferlinghetti and the Beat Movement

 “I have a personal connection with Ferlinghetti. While I never met him, he influenced my life.  A Coney Island of the Mind (1958) was the first poetry book that reached me, at the age of 16 my friends and I sat around reading it aloud to each other. His fight against censorship also influenced me. When Tropic of Cancer was published by Grove Press in 1961, Robin’s Book Store was the test case in Pennsylvania. While Ferlinghetti won his case, we lost. Another Tropic of Cancer case made it to the Supreme Court which permitted sales in the United States.” – Larry Robin

Not All contributors Will Be Reading:

Joseph Bathanti

Joan Bauer

Ken Been

R. Bremner

Maryrose Carroll

Greg Colburn

Terry Dugan

Oliver Egger

Marie-Louise Eyres

Francis Flavin

Joan Huffman

Jones Irwin

Irving Jones

Chris Kaiser

Leonard Kress

Jim LaVilla-Havelin

Jim McDade

Richard Paul

Joan Penn

Kenneth Pobo

John Polier

Larry Robin

Ari Robinson

George Schaefer

Linda Simone

Bob Small

Diana Tenes

Kelley White

Samantha Wright

Robert Zaller