Born in Yonkers, New York in 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet, activist, painter, and publisher. He founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in 1953, the first all paperback bookstore in the country. It is still in operation today.
Ferlinghetti was instrumental in publishing the works of Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Diane DePrima, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Bob Kaufman, and others. Ferlinghetti is still active today at age 94. He writes a column for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Sources
www.poets.org
www.poetryfoundation.org
| If you would be a poet, create works capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if this meaning sounds apocalyptic.
You are Whitman, you are Poe, you are Mark Twain, you are Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, you areNeruda and Mayakovsky and Pasolini, you are an American or a non-American, you can conquer the conquerors with words..
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from his book Poetry As Insurgent Art
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