Yahoo

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Celebrated Poet, Dies at 101: 'Our Poet and Hero'

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the famed poet who was placed on trial in the 1950s for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl, died Monday evening at age 101. City Lights Booksellers, the bookstore Ferlinghetti ...
KQED

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Lesser-Known Identity as a Painter on Display at Triton Museum

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CBS News

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Who Helped Launch The Beat Movement, Dies At 101

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Poet, publisher, bookseller and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...
Yahoo

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet and Publisher, Dies at 101

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and bookseller whose San Francisco store City Light Books was the nexus of the Beat movement in the 1950s and ’60s, died Monday at age 101. Ferlinghetti died of lung ...
Rolling Stone

‘I Never Was a Beat Poet’: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Musical Vision

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died last month just 30 days shy of his 102nd birthday, lived a life of fascinating contradictions. From a Dickensian childhood — his father died before he was born, and his ...
Mercury News

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and Beat icon, dead at 101

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embody its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...
SFGate

Ferlinghetti speaks out at 99, his voice as vital as ever

Lawrence Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights 65 years ago, in 1953. “I’m there in spirit all the time,” he says of the beloved, world-famous bookstore on Columbus Avenue in North Beach. How about in ...
Los Angeles Times

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s life contains a lesson for cancel culture

He had a great look, a group of avant-garde friends and a boot-strapped start-up in North Beach. It was 1957. He was also facing a lawsuit: the People of the State of California vs. Lawrence ...
SFGate

Taking on the establishment made Ferlinghetti a shoo-in to receive first-ever literarian award

"If you want to be a poet, you must go to City Lights Books." This was Kenneth Rexroth's advice to Jessica Hagedorn in the late 1950s, and she took it. "My life has never been the same," Hagedorn, an ...
People

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Celebrated Poet, Dies at 101: 'Our Poet and Hero'

Lawrence Ferlinghetti died of interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco, according to his children Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at ...
NPR

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco. He was 101. Ferlinghetti is probably best known for three things: his Beat poetry, his San Francisco bookstore and small press, and his defense of the ...