City Lights gets ready for the coming invasion with banners and protest #poetry by their founder #lawrenceferlinghetti
Love Portland inflatables, Boston’s crowds, and LA and Chicago’s conviction, but one thing I know for sure is that #SanFrancisco can put on a show and knows how to protest
Love Portland inflatables, Boston’s crowds, and LA and Chicago’s conviction, but one thing I know for sure is that #SanFrancisco can put on a show and knows how to protest
SF institution hangs protest banners as federal agents are sent to Bay Area
"Pity the nation whose leaders are liars."
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October 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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City Lights bookstore with the poem “Pity The Nation” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and its warning against tyranny displayed for all to see.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lawren...
✒️ Remembering #LawrenceFerlinghetti, American Beat poet ("Coney Island of the Mind"), painter, and publisher, who passed away #OTD 22 February 2021, aged 101. #Poetry #Literature
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✒️ Remembering #LawrenceFerlinghetti, American Beat poet ("Coney Island of the Mind"), painter, and publisher, who passed away #OTD 22 February 2021, aged 101. #Poetry #Literature
February 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Today in #LaborHistory 3/24/1919: #Poet #LawrenceFerlinghetti was born. Wrote “A Coney Island of the Mind” (1958). Cofounded #CityLights #bookstore, #SanFrancisco. Arrested for publishing Howl, by #AllenGinsberg. Supported #anarchism & #IWW.
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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70th Anniversary 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 10 August 1955, the legendary #SanFrancisco independent bookseller and publisher #CityLights published its first book: the #poetry collection "Pictures of the Gone World" by co-founder and poet #LawrenceFerlinghetti.
August 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Well, remember, Marx began his writing life as a Romanticist poet. (But don’t we all?) I have a collection of Marx’s poems that City Lights published in 1977, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Reinhard Lettau. They’re—okay. Lol
#karlmarx #a24 #citylights #LawrenceFerlinghetti
Well, remember, Marx began his writing life as a Romanticist poet. (But don’t we all?) I have a collection of Marx’s poems that City Lights published in 1977, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Reinhard Lettau. They’re—okay. Lol
#karlmarx #a24 #citylights #LawrenceFerlinghetti
November 18, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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“A Coney Island of the Mind” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poem 14) #poetrymonth2025 #poetry #lawrenceferlinghetti
April 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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"Printer's ink is the greater explosive." Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#lawrenceferlinghetti #thebeatmuseum ##sanfrancisco #poet #poetry #beatnik #journalism
#lawrenceferlinghetti #thebeatmuseum ##sanfrancisco #poet #poetry #beatnik #journalism
November 24, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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and I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
- #LawrenceFerlinghetti, 'I Am Waiting'
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
- #LawrenceFerlinghetti, 'I Am Waiting'
May 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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"To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist – if you say you are, you probably aren’t."
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Daily #zen #buddhism #ferlinghetti #lawrenceferlinghetti
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Daily #zen #buddhism #ferlinghetti #lawrenceferlinghetti
September 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Died #otd Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), American poet, painter and social activist, 4 years ago today #LawrenceFerlinghettilife story...
February 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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January 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I AM WAITING
By #LawrenceFerlinghetti
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
By #LawrenceFerlinghetti
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
May 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Bob Dylan and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#BobDylan #BOTD #LawrenceFerlinghetti
An excellent in-depth view of their long relationship, including Dylan's long Prose poem "Letter to Larry", written to him before Dylan's departure to France in 1964.
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#BobDylan #BOTD #LawrenceFerlinghetti
An excellent in-depth view of their long relationship, including Dylan's long Prose poem "Letter to Larry", written to him before Dylan's departure to France in 1964.
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Bob Dylan and Lawrence Ferlinghetti - NSF News and Magazine
Bob Dylan and Lawrence Ferlinghetti Wikipedia entry about Lawrence Ferlinghetti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti ——————————————————— Michael Gray’s Bob Dylan Encyclopedia has an ent...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lawren...
✒ Remembering American Beat Generation poet and publisher #LawrenceFerlinghetti, #BOTD 24 March 1919. #Poetry
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lawren...
✒ Remembering American Beat Generation poet and publisher #LawrenceFerlinghetti, #BOTD 24 March 1919. #Poetry
March 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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CONSTANTLY RISKING ABSURDITY (#15)
By #LawrenceFerlinghetti
Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
By #LawrenceFerlinghetti
Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
May 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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"Pity the nation whose breath is money and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed. Pity the nation, oh pity the people, who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away. My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty!" #LawrenceFerlinghetti #PityTheNation #PrayForAmerica
March 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Lektüre für den Jahreswechsel.
#Poesie als rebellische #Kunst
#poetry #sukultur #lawrenceferlinghetti
#Poesie als rebellische #Kunst
#poetry #sukultur #lawrenceferlinghetti
December 17, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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I was fortunate to take the 1st picture (below) of #LawrenceFerlinghetti, at the #SanFrancisco International #Poetry Festival, where I was also participating.
Honored our paths crossed 🙏🏼✨🕊
"I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder."
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) #writingcommunity
Honored our paths crossed 🙏🏼✨🕊
"I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder."
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) #writingcommunity
February 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Heute vor 105 Jahren wurde Lawrence Ferlinghetti geboren.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ist ein Anagramm von
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#Anagramm #Anagramme #TeamAnagramm
#LawrenceFerlinghetti #Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ist ein Anagramm von
Rentierfallen-Gewicht
#Geburtstagsanagramm
#AnagrammTextperfekt
#Anagramm #Anagramme #TeamAnagramm
#LawrenceFerlinghetti #Ferlinghetti
March 24, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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Today in #LaborHistory 3/25/1957: US #Customs seized copies of #AllenGinsberg #poem #Howl for #obscenity for explicit references to #homosexuality. #LawrenceFerlinghetti, publisher, also arrested.
#lgbtq #citylights #censorship #bannedbooks #books #writer #author #poet
#lgbtq #citylights #censorship #bannedbooks #books #writer #author #poet
March 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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PS: In my career as a feature writer & editor, interviewing #LawrenceFerlinghetti when he was to speak in the capital of #WestVirginia in 1995 was a highlight. The words of this ‘ageless radical’ about Republicans then are ever more true in 2025. PROFILE LINK: www.thestoryisthething.com/archives/569
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#OTD #TDIH #March24, 1919: #HBD #LawrenceFerlinghetti! #Poets #Painters #Activists #Translations #ArtCritics #Narrators #Bookshopkeepers #PoetrySky
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The world is a beautiful place
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March 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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