Lawrence Ferlinghetti did free verse better
October 15, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Lawrence Ferlinghetti did free verse better
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October 13, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Wow an old poem btpy Lawrebpnce Ferlinghetti nailed it all those years ago! Check this out
October 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Wow an old poem btpy Lawrebpnce Ferlinghetti nailed it all those years ago! Check this out
A poet by the name of Lawrence Ferlinghetti had it right all those years ago. Just wow!
October 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
A poet by the name of Lawrence Ferlinghetti had it right all those years ago. Just wow!
some folks here are—perhaps—not old enough to remember a time when high school students like me spent years immersed in beat poetry & memorizing poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and e.e. cummings. the latter of whom never had to do battle with auto-correct & was never coerced to capitalize i.
October 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
some folks here are—perhaps—not old enough to remember a time when high school students like me spent years immersed in beat poetry & memorizing poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and e.e. cummings. the latter of whom never had to do battle with auto-correct & was never coerced to capitalize i.
Laura, I had a dream last night of a repeating scene of Ferlinghetti and "Baseball Canto." He was talking to someone about baseball, not reciting the poem. In my dream the person he spoke to was Frank O'Hara, or so it seemed. Beats move on to New York School, at least in my dreams.
October 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Laura, I had a dream last night of a repeating scene of Ferlinghetti and "Baseball Canto." He was talking to someone about baseball, not reciting the poem. In my dream the person he spoke to was Frank O'Hara, or so it seemed. Beats move on to New York School, at least in my dreams.
Last planks & pilings of Blanche’s removed by the city. It was a funky SF cafe in the 60’s into the 90’s, at 4th St on Mission Creek, visited by laborers, cultural figures, writers, & artists, including poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author Herbert Gold, sculptor Ruth Asawa, & columnist Herb Caen.
October 11, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Last planks & pilings of Blanche’s removed by the city. It was a funky SF cafe in the 60’s into the 90’s, at 4th St on Mission Creek, visited by laborers, cultural figures, writers, & artists, including poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author Herbert Gold, sculptor Ruth Asawa, & columnist Herb Caen.
Look closely! An eagle-eyed customer spotted The Phinney by Post Book crammed into a chaotic stack in their offices alongside once-and-future Nobelists. Heady company! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
October 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Look closely! An eagle-eyed customer spotted The Phinney by Post Book crammed into a chaotic stack in their offices alongside once-and-future Nobelists. Heady company! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
45. A poesia como arte insurxente de Lawrence Ferlinghetti (trad. Daniel Salgado).
Varios textos seus da década de 1970 que busca exaltar a poesía como ferramenta liberadora e libertadora, individual e social.
Reivindica a voz do poeta como un exercicio de liberdade e compromiso.
#FranLe26
Varios textos seus da década de 1970 que busca exaltar a poesía como ferramenta liberadora e libertadora, individual e social.
Reivindica a voz do poeta como un exercicio de liberdade e compromiso.
#FranLe26
October 12, 2026 at 7:46 AM
45. A poesia como arte insurxente de Lawrence Ferlinghetti (trad. Daniel Salgado).
Varios textos seus da década de 1970 que busca exaltar a poesía como ferramenta liberadora e libertadora, individual e social.
Reivindica a voz do poeta como un exercicio de liberdade e compromiso.
#FranLe26
Varios textos seus da década de 1970 que busca exaltar a poesía como ferramenta liberadora e libertadora, individual e social.
Reivindica a voz do poeta como un exercicio de liberdade e compromiso.
#FranLe26
Banned Books Week
Big Sur/Bixby Canyon attracted the greatest concentration of controversial, censored, outlaw, or frequently challenged authors:
Henry Miller
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (publisher)
Robinson Jeffers
Big Sur/Bixby Canyon attracted the greatest concentration of controversial, censored, outlaw, or frequently challenged authors:
Henry Miller
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (publisher)
Robinson Jeffers
Big Little Lies Opening: Bixby Bridge Drive
ALT: Big Little Lies Opening: Bixby Bridge Drive
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October 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Banned Books Week
Big Sur/Bixby Canyon attracted the greatest concentration of controversial, censored, outlaw, or frequently challenged authors:
Henry Miller
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (publisher)
Robinson Jeffers
Big Sur/Bixby Canyon attracted the greatest concentration of controversial, censored, outlaw, or frequently challenged authors:
Henry Miller
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (publisher)
Robinson Jeffers
she was right for him entirely
he followed her into
the playland of that evening
where the headlong meeting
of their ephemeral flesh on wheels
hurtled them forever together
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
he followed her into
the playland of that evening
where the headlong meeting
of their ephemeral flesh on wheels
hurtled them forever together
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
October 7, 2026 at 8:08 AM
she was right for him entirely
he followed her into
the playland of that evening
where the headlong meeting
of their ephemeral flesh on wheels
hurtled them forever together
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
he followed her into
the playland of that evening
where the headlong meeting
of their ephemeral flesh on wheels
hurtled them forever together
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here
First visited City Lights Bookstore in fall 1978; was back in 1979; and between AHAs and now HSBs almost annual pilgrimages. I’ve been in store when the late Larry Ferlinghetti was in, but my visits usually at night, too late. #BookSky #SkyPhotography #Beats
First visited City Lights Bookstore in fall 1978; was back in 1979; and between AHAs and now HSBs almost annual pilgrimages. I’ve been in store when the late Larry Ferlinghetti was in, but my visits usually at night, too late. #BookSky #SkyPhotography #Beats
October 7, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here
First visited City Lights Bookstore in fall 1978; was back in 1979; and between AHAs and now HSBs almost annual pilgrimages. I’ve been in store when the late Larry Ferlinghetti was in, but my visits usually at night, too late. #BookSky #SkyPhotography #Beats
First visited City Lights Bookstore in fall 1978; was back in 1979; and between AHAs and now HSBs almost annual pilgrimages. I’ve been in store when the late Larry Ferlinghetti was in, but my visits usually at night, too late. #BookSky #SkyPhotography #Beats
10/7/55: 1st reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl
(“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness")
In 1957 Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore arrested for publishing it
More:
@thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2010...
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
(“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness")
In 1957 Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore arrested for publishing it
More:
@thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2010...
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
How "Howl" changed the world.
Howl may be the unlikeliest movie ever to come out of Sundance with national distribution: a translation of a poem—the substance, spirit, and cultural...
slate.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:03 PM
10/7/55: 1st reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl
(“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness")
In 1957 Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore arrested for publishing it
More:
@thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2010...
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
(“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness")
In 1957 Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore arrested for publishing it
More:
@thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2010...
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Gary Snyder is still alive, age 96. One of my friends in NYC saw Ezra Pound and his long time mistress Olga Rudge at graduation at Hamilton College circa 1968. The poets born in the last of the 19th Century have passed. Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti died t 101.
October 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Gary Snyder is still alive, age 96. One of my friends in NYC saw Ezra Pound and his long time mistress Olga Rudge at graduation at Hamilton College circa 1968. The poets born in the last of the 19th Century have passed. Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti died t 101.
An Open Book time capsule from November. 2024 where @nprscottsimon reads poems from Ferlinghetti, Sandberg, and Ohio gets a shout out. substack.com/@scottsimons...
Our Open Book opens some autumn poems: Frost, Sandburg, Ferlinghetti, Ohio, crows, and leaves
A recording from Scott Simon's live video
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October 6, 2026 at 9:53 PM
An Open Book time capsule from November. 2024 where @nprscottsimon reads poems from Ferlinghetti, Sandberg, and Ohio gets a shout out. substack.com/@scottsimons...
City Lights, a San Francisco bookstore, published the book itself to avoid customs problems, and storeowner (and poet) Lawrence Ferlinghetti was arrested and tried for obscenity, but defended by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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October 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
City Lights, a San Francisco bookstore, published the book itself to avoid customs problems, and storeowner (and poet) Lawrence Ferlinghetti was arrested and tried for obscenity, but defended by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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Today in #LaborHistory 10/3/1957: #California Superior Court ruled that Howl and Other Poems, by #AllenGinsberg, was not obscene. References to drugs & homosexuality provoked #obscenity charges. City Lights bookstore owner #LawrenceFerlinghetti & manager Shig Murao, were arrested for obscenity
October 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Today in #LaborHistory 10/3/1957: #California Superior Court ruled that Howl and Other Poems, by #AllenGinsberg, was not obscene. References to drugs & homosexuality provoked #obscenity charges. City Lights bookstore owner #LawrenceFerlinghetti & manager Shig Murao, were arrested for obscenity
October 3, 1957: The American Civil Liberties Union wins its case in The People of the State of California vs. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in which it defends “Howl,” the incendiary poem written by Allen Ginsberg, against charges of obscenity.
October 3, 2026 at 3:33 AM
October 3, 1957: The American Civil Liberties Union wins its case in The People of the State of California vs. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in which it defends “Howl,” the incendiary poem written by Allen Ginsberg, against charges of obscenity.
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately." ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#LeeJudge
#LeeJudge
September 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately." ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#LeeJudge
#LeeJudge
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Lawrence #Ferlinghetti
#writing #poetry #poem
#Art #Glasgow #streetart by Smug.
Lawrence #Ferlinghetti
#writing #poetry #poem
#Art #Glasgow #streetart by Smug.
September 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Lawrence #Ferlinghetti
#writing #poetry #poem
#Art #Glasgow #streetart by Smug.
Lawrence #Ferlinghetti
#writing #poetry #poem
#Art #Glasgow #streetart by Smug.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time
September 28, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time
Oh I love these pictures a friend just sent from last night’s My Hungry Ghosts book launch at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social . Here I am reading with CA poet laureate Lee Herrick with Lawrence Ferlinghetti looking over our shoulders!
September 23, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Oh I love these pictures a friend just sent from last night’s My Hungry Ghosts book launch at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social . Here I am reading with CA poet laureate Lee Herrick with Lawrence Ferlinghetti looking over our shoulders!
Excerpt from "I Am Waiting" Lawrence Ferlinghetti tinyurl.com/5n7mha3j
I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes
and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
w/o killing
I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes
and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
w/o killing
September 26, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Excerpt from "I Am Waiting" Lawrence Ferlinghetti tinyurl.com/5n7mha3j
I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes
and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
w/o killing
I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes
and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
w/o killing
"Sometime During Eternity" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
YouTube video by SpokenVerse
youtu.be
September 24, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Sometimes you just have to post a poem.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time
September 21, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Sometimes you just have to post a poem.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don’t mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don’t sing
all the time